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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1908.
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THE PORTLAND POLICY.
From the signs most conspicuous in
the press of Portland, and out of it
there would seem to be a conspiracy
afoot to center the political interests
of Oregon at the metropolis along
with all other state-wide concerns.
This may be alright, and it may not;
the people are beginning to weary of
the one-town domination that leaves
no choice to the outsider in the com
mercial and industrial affairs; and
now to have the political dictum
taken over there, may prove too much
for the patience that has stretched to
breaking. ; '
The Portland sentiment ( seems to
be verging on the Wilcoxian doctrine
of "Portland against the State," a
slogan that makes the metropolis
hateful abroad in Oregon; but, since
she has practically half the popula
tion of the state, it is pertinent and
logical Just how the absorbtion is
going to be taken in the outlying dis
tricts remains to be seen; and there
is a chance for some pretty hot con
tests at the polls and in the Legisla
ture, and in which the Multnomahns
may find barriers worth their notice.
What does Portland want, anyway?
Must the balance of this State re
nounce its claims to choice and free
expression in all things political,
simply to satisfy the lust for control
and prestige that is warping the com
mon sense and decent judgment of
the metropolis. We had best come to
an understanding at once on this
score and determine just how much
of Oregon lies beyond the doors of
Multnomah, so far as constitutional
libetry and action are concerned. It
is time the people were awakening to
the ambition of our one great citj
and curbing its insensate craving for
all power in the commonwealth
commercal, political and industrial.
This, or sanction, by legislative enact
ment, the obliteration of her munici
pal status, and make her dominion
Statewide, with a franchise that shall
count us all citizens of Portland un
accountable to other authority of any
kind.
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THE ITCH FOR OFFICE.
At this particular season of this
especial year in Oregon the preva
lence of la grippe is badly discounted
by that other and deeper-seated dis
ease, the itch for office.
It is one of those maladies that
imposes itself not only on the actual
victim, but upon every man he knows
and calls friend. It is an intermitant
and baneful visitation and ranges the
whole gamut of political official
schedule and counts its sufferers in
every bailiwick of the state.
Astoria has quite a batch on had
already; men who were innoculated
years ago and have never gotten it
out of the blood. Its tenacity is re-
markable, despite the fact that nine
times out of ten it is never salved by
any success at the polls, but rather
goes through the humiliation of de
feat, time after time, only to increase
its hold on the martyr and its plague
on his friends and acquaintances.
The primaries were looked upon as a
probable source of relief, but even
the iron-hand of repudiation at that
poll does not seem to abate the initial
nuisance. Of course, the ardent suf
ferer knows when he is sat down on
at the primaries, and restires, per
force, to the shades of normal ob
scurity; yet he bobs up serenely the
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next time, without recurring thought
of the lambasting he got previously
It is an invincible and an incorrigible
complaint, and largely susceptible of
complaint, from other than the orig
nial source.
A SURFEIT OF HONORS.
It is announced from Portland, as
a verity, that there is an understood
and perfected deal afoot in the State,
to make up the Oregon Republican
delegation to the National Conven
tion, at Chicago, of the four repre
sentatives npw in Congress, Senators
Fulton and Bourne, and Representa
tives Ellis and Hawley. This is on a
Daritv with the rest of the political
deals now under negotiation, and ex
ceeds, for extraordinary and untradi
tional processes anything ever heard
of in Oregon. ,
One would think that the gentle
men in question had received enough
popular testimony of confidence and
honor, without setting them this task
and tribute, so unusual and irregular;
so needless and gratuitous. There
are plenty of excellent men in the
ranks of the party to whom such re
wards as this are due and who would
appreciate it quite as much as those
four, to whom it would come more
in the light of a surfeit than anything
else. We are opposed to the plan,
and shall fiuht it to a finish on the
ground that it is a dangerous innova
tion and a palpable breach of author
ized and recognized procedure.
FOLLY, PURE AND SIMPLE.
A Portland policeman found it
necessary to kill a friend on Wednes
day evening, because that friend was
an incarnate idiot and put himself in
the place of the crook that is suppos
ed to be killed by every officer who
gets such a chance. He posed as a
highwayman, at the hour such gentry
are known to be abroad, and the
climax of his stupidity was in select
ing a policeman to play the trick up
on. He has paid the penalty of his
utter folly, and the officer has the
symapthy and commendation of the
whole State, for having set at ex-
ample of swift service in police work
that will be invaluable as a hint to
his colleagues on the force and to
the highbinders that flock to the road
in this criminal behalf.
The state and her cities need more
such guardians as this; and it is just
such incidents that contribute to the
need. Every officer in Oregon should
be under orders to shoot these mur
derous scoundrels on sight just as
this Portland policeman did, the
fakes as well as the fiends.
The Republican party has many
men fit to be president, but no one of
them is as great as the party, nor
are all combined. But Mr. Bryan is
the Democratic party, and its pros
pects are what might be expected
from so lamentable a plight of a once
self-governing organization.
A GOODLY COMPROMISE.
Word comes over from Seattle that
a compromise has been effected as
between the lumbermen and the rail
ways of the Northwest, whereby ship
ments may be started, pending the
adjustment of the excess rate de
manded by the transportation lines:
by the Inter-State Commerce Com
mission.
This is alright, provided there shall
be a market for the lumber that has
congested at the mills and yards out
here. The compromise is futile if
there shall be no demand for the
product At all events we hope there
is enough of demand to stimulate a
further call for this great commodity
and that the resumption will be set
afoot at an early day, and never be
heard of as relaxing again.
MONTANA PIONEER DEAD.
DILLON ,Mont., Feb. 13 Arthur
Sullivan, aged 90 years, the oldest
resident of this section of Montana,
and a pioneer of three states, is dead.
Mr. Sullivan was one of the leading
citizens of Southern Montana and
at one time was one of the wealthiest
men in the State. He was prominent
in masonry circles. During the early
days Mr. Sullivan journeyed to Mis
souri, Colorado and Montana.
FIRED UPON FROM AMBUSH
MERIDIAN, Miss., Feb. 13.
Cooper Henderson, a mill man, and
Samuel Culpeher, county convict
manager, were fired upon from am
bush last night near Braham's station
by three unknown negroes. Hender
son was probably fatally wounded and
Culpeher received serious injuries
The negroes escaped but posses are
in pursuit
EDITORIAL SALAD
Paris has a few yellow papers that
insist on war between the United
States and Japan as an inevitable
event. This seems to be a branch of
the Paris cheque system, and will
eventually be identified asa stock job
bing contrivance.
Enlistments in the army and navy
have been increasing lately. The voy
age of the big fleet has had a favor
able effect on the service. For the
unemployed who can pass the exam
ination the opening is considered by
many one of the best.
In 1905 Canada imported from the
United States goods worth $82,000,.
000. Last year the figures were $112,
000,000, or more than half of the
Canadian imports. A short haul
the best prices, and the most desir
able products are bound to win.
Last year British imports exceeded
British exports by $640,000,000, while
American exports were greater than
American imports by $500,000,000.
Some political economist say they
prefer the British side of the ledger,
but Americans are few who would
agree to a swap.
The chairmen of several agricul
tural boards have been interviewed as
to whether rural free delivery pays
or not They give the usual affirma
tive reasons, and so many more than
escape the casual observer that the
reader is convinced the system is one
of the best yet invented "for the pub
lie good.
The United States supreme court,
in a unanimous decision, holds a
boycott of manufacturers engaged in
interstate commerce to be illegal and
that those who engage in the boycott
are liable to damages. Thus the
highest court declares that trade or
ganizations that are responsible for
boycotts violate the law against com
binations formed in restraint of trade
The decision was announced by Chief
Justice Fuller and there was no dis
senting opinion.
v SIX BATTLESHIPS.
To Petition Navy Department for
Permanent Fleet in Pacific Water
LOS ANGELES, CAL. Feb. 13.
In order that the War Department
may fully appreciate the strong sen
timent of the people of the Pacific
Coast in favor of permanently man
taming a Act of at least six modern
battleships in these waters, various
commercial bodies of Washington,
Oregon and this state will be asked
to pass resolutions to that effect and
to forward copies to the authorities
at Washington.
A letter from the Commercial Club
at Seattle was read before the direct
ors of the Chamber of Commerce yes
terday in which it was stated that
resolutions passed by the local cham
ber would have great influence as
representing the sentiment of the
people of one of the largest cities of
the coast. The matter was referred
to the committee on fortifications.
PITFALLS OF ENGLISH.
Our Puttllng Language and Ita Words
of More Than One Mtanlng,
Ot all moderu lnugunftfs EngllHh la
undoubtedly tho most dlttleult to rtc
qiitro. In addition to the ordinary
pltfalla ot forms and Idioms that en
trap tho foreigner struggling tor Mas
tery ot a atrango tongue, tuore la ouo
to peculiar to oura that nothing eveu
rvmotely similar presents Itself la any
other language, whether ancient or
modern.
This Is tlu paradoxical word, the
word which has two meanings dlntuot
rlcully opposed to each other, It Is
not euough that, with alt the wealth
of words borrowed from half a score
ot other languages, we must Impose a
double and often a multiple burden on
some poor little monosyllabic- word
like "got," for Instance, whose mean
Ings are legion. Our language must
needs confound the student at the
gates with the paradox. To give a
few examples:
The word 'let" means to "allow"
or "permit" and likewise to "pre
vent," "hluder" or "refuse,' meanings
diametrically opposite. "I will let you
do It" In the former sense Is hardly
more common In use than the phrase
"without let ' or hindrance," and
Shakespeare hss it, "By heaven, I'll
make a ghost of him that lets (pre
vents) me!"
"Cleave" means to split asunder as
well as to "adhere" or "bind" closely.
Scott makes Marmlon threaten to
"cleave the Douglas' head," while
holy writ enjoins upon the husband to
"cleave unto bis wife."
Another example la "lurid," which
means both a "dull red" and also a
"pale green" hue, tints that are exact
ly opposed to the scale of color. While
the former I the more common mean
ing, the latter Is more scholarly cor
rect, as the word Is derived through
the Latin from the Greek adjective
meaning "greenish bned."
Again, we have "fast" A home
that la "fast" may be In rapid motion
or standing tied stock still. In either
sense, whether of motion ot Immobili
ty, the word emphasizes the Idea.
Examples of this bewildering pit
fall of our tongue might be multiplied
Indefinitely. It may be said of the
English speaking world as It was said
of the old Romans that their suprem
acy Is due to the fact that they do
not have to learn their own language,
-Chicago Record-Herald.
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Because meats are so tasty they
are consumed in great excess. This
leads to stomach troubles, biliousness
and constipation. Revise your diet,
let reason and not a pampered ap
petite control, then take a few doses
of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets and you will soon be well
again. Try it For sale at Frank
Hart and leading druggists.
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by Frank Hart and leading druggists.
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ASTORIA, ORE.
Phone 3901
Headquarters
PORTLAND, ORE.
Are equipped to do all kinds of
Dental work at very lowest prices.
Nervous people and those atflicted
with heart weakness may have no
fear of the dental chair.
22 K. crown....... $5.00
Bridge work, per tooth 5.00
Gold fillings $1.00 up
Silver fillings. 50c to $1.00
Best rubber plate . .$800
Aluminum-line plate $10 to $15.00
These offices are modern through
out We are able to do all work
absolutely painless. Our success Is
due to uniform high grade work by
gentlemanly operators having 10
to 15 vears- experience. Vegetable
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as for painless extraction of teetn,
50c A binding guarantee given
with all work for 10 years. Exami
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Lady in attendance. Eighteen of
fices in the United States. .
Cor. Commercial and Eleventh Sts.,
over Danxiger store.
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Fisher Brothers Company
SOLE AGENTS
Barbour and Flnlayson Salmon Twins and Netting
McCormlck Harvesting Machines
t Oliver Chilled rioughs
Malthoid Roofing
Thorples Crenm Sepnratori
Raecolith Flooring ( Slorrett's Tools
Hardware, Groceries, Ship
Chandlery
Tan Bark, Blue Stone, Muriatic Acid, Welch Coal, Tar,
Ash Ours, Oak Lumber, Pipe and Fittings, Brass
Goods, Paint, Oils and Glass ,
Fishermen's Pure Manilla Rope, Cotton Twine and Seine Web
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FISHBR BROS.
BOND STREET
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We have the largest stock of Valentines
that ever came to Astoria.
Comics, Drops, Valentine Post Cards and
a large and assorted stock of Fancy
and Pretty Valentines.
E. A. HIGOINS CO.,
M OHIO HOOKS BTATIONF.ltY
eeeve
Open and Ready
FOR BUSINESS
With a full line of spring and summer
goods. Imported and Domestic Wool
ens in all the latest patterns and effects.
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The Wash?
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Successors to Fotrd & Stokes Co.
Maraschino Cherries
DELICIOUS
Try'em 75c and $1.00
a bottle at the
AMERICAN IMPORTING CO.
r 589 Commercial Street
J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President. FRANK PATTON, Casbier
O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President J. W. GARNER, Assistant Cashier
Astoria Savings Bank
Transacts a General Banking Business p-t-Interest Paid on Time Deposits
FOUR PER CENT PER ANNUM.
Eleventh and Duane Sts. ' . . Astoria, Oregon.
First National Bank of Astoria, Ore.
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