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THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY j THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1871 Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. BELLINGER CO. " SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By wail, per year !..$7.00 By carrier, per month. JSO WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance, $1.50 talnul u MWVMld-alllMI DIMM UJ M liMM a. nrtftrtflfta At Altl OPP- HM,andrUMMtofCMir"ot Marco S, BT-OnWi for tk Wwra si T Mos milwoKiAi. toltb iwfcteas or ptaoj of button T k BMd by puui or4 or through wtochom. Any ImmWtj ta d Unry obouM to InmdUwIr repoiud lo M oraeootpubUootioa. y ,. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. Official paper of Clatsop County and the City of Astoria. THE WEATHER Western Oregon, Western Wash ingtonRain and colder. Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washing ton, Idaho Rain or snow; colder. THAT U. OF O. $125,000. The Oregon Legislature very prop erly passed an appropriation in the sum of $125,000 for the benefit of the University of Oregon ,at its last ses sion, and the same was passed up to the people upon a referendum, and will be voted upon at the general election on June 1st ' For the credit of the whole State and the good of the University, it is to be hoped there will be a rousing majority for the concession. To de feat such a bill would show a popular indifference to the maintenance and success of one of the best and most helpful integers of Oregon's state hood. ,,..,) - The State has founded the institu tion in good faith, and maintained it with a fair generosity for the years of its existance; and what is sought for it now, is not so much by way of deliberate expansion, as it is to meet the logical growth of the great school . itself. You cannot keep a good thin&down to any limitations; it is bound to grow and flourish, and the extension of its work and service must be met by prompt and rational expenditures adequate to the pace of that growth. There is nothing to be urged against such an appropriation; the regency of the University is of a kind to negative all thought of waste or extravagance or worse, and every dollar of the $125,000 will find its exact and pur poseful place in the scheme of bet , terment designed for the school. The people do not always have the opportunity to exercise their will in the distribution of the public moneys, and this is an occasion for the dem onstration of their best judgment in directing, at least, that much of the public treasure to channels that mean something of real and practical good; and of exemplifying their faculty for wise administrative ability. To re fuse it will be a sign of sheer weak ness in that line; and we hope there will be no dubiousness nor meagre ness in the mandate from the polls to hand this sum over to the proper representatives of the establishment we are all proud of. SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK v HAS MONEY TO LOAN ON GOOD SECURITY seems, being among the lofty, the prosperous, the powerful, he has at last come to his turn in the play of popular criticism and resentment and must make the best of it THE MODERN SURGEON. While we are following our pessi mistic bent of damning the grafters, scoring and scorning the "interests, cursing the political pirates, of our day and country, we might, as a mat ter of sheer relief, turn to the clear and compensating manifestations of professional acumen and accomplish ment that are making for the safety and comfort of the race and contrib uting hugely to the annals of scienti fic achievment . Among the great professions we hear most of the surgeons; that is, more frequently and freely of the good things they are doing, of the discoveries they are making, and of the practical and perfect schemes they are devising for 1 eliminating the chance of death and diminishing the volumne and duration of pain and malady. ' .-.., We owe more to them than we GERMAN EXPANSION Baron Speck Von Sternburg Re lutes the Story NO LUST FOR TERRITORY The World it Large Enough and All They Want ia a Fair Chance to Compete on Equal Terma With Other Countries. NEW YORK, Feb. 2a-Baron Speck von Sternburg, the German Ambassador at Washington, has an article in the North American Review which appeared today, on "The Truth about German Expansion," refuting reports of Germany's designs on Hol land and Belgium, and explaining JEROME'S TURN NOW. New York's great criminal prose cutor is to be grilled on the grand jury irons of inquisition. His removal has been prayed for by a host of people who have alleged all sorts of things against him and the matter has reached the hands of Governor Hughes, who calmly says, "the charges will take their usual course." This means somethings more than it used to in New York, thanks to the power and policies of that same Gov ernor. ' Jerome is of the "Four Hundred" of Gotham and this may have contrib uted somewhat to the sudden array of adverse sentiment against him, that idea being current and popular just now in centers of that kind. His office is, in a sense, one of almost National significance and cannot escape the limelight even a little bit; therefore it is an easy matter to account for the 22 formal charges that have developed against him, and which are, for the most part purely tentative and of no real import, while some of them are grave enough to rouse very definite interest. Out here, 3500 miles from the man and his sphere, he has never loomed very big; has never been considered really distinguished nor great in the field he occupies; but he has been generally credited with a desire to do his duty by the people. ' But, it the profound and successful students of this comforting cult, become great more by reason of the readiness of their professional brethren to recog nize and proclaim their victories, than by any spontaneous acknowledgment conceded by the laity. ' Every accession of professional and technical value made by the physi cian or the surgeon, is of direct bene fit to mankind and reduces the meas ure of its danger and decrepitude. We should take better cognizance of the good that is being done for us and signalize our sense of its splendid import as well as our knowledge of its especial source. EDITORIAL SALAD Congress seems to prefer subma rines to battleships. If the sub merged vessels work, an enemy would rather meet a battleship than the hidden danger, so the subject is an open one and can not be settled oh theory alone. When Mr Bryan delivered his lengthy tariff speech in Congress a colleague asked him if his wife wrote it, to which Mr. Bryan replied: "She might have done so, she is clever enough." The compliment is delight fully comprehensive. ; realize and are far too chary in ad- Germany's real policy on expansion, mitting what of it we do know. But, The Ambassador says: day by day the debt is growing, and! "Especially during the last two years it nas Deen noticed by those in terested in the world's development that a number of papers of Western Europe, have circulated the' reports that the ' independence of the two small states Holland and Bedgium it jeopardized in consequence of the war spirit and lust for territory al leged to exst in Germany. The re ports, to which I refer, seek also to interest the American people by as serting tha tthe underlying reason for ftrmanv't nnrnnc a ..I.. t.a Netherlands, arises out of our ambi tion to possess territory in the west ern hemisphere. The Island of Cura cao in the Caribbean Sea is pointed to as a constant object of our keen solicitude. Should Germany, It is stated, succeed .in annexing the Neth erlands, her colonies naturally will pass with the mother country. "In an article printed in the May number 1906 of the North American Review, 'The Phanton Perils of Ger man Emigration and South-American Settlements I have already given a clear expose of Germany's policy in the southern hemisphere and proved that there is not a shadow of truth in the attacks directed against it by po litical columniators. ' "Even such politicans who cannot ignore the conspicuous fact that the German Emperor is an enthusiastic advocate of the Peace Movement; that the German Government since thirty-seven years that is, ever since the great national strife of the years 1870-1871 has striven always for peace and always has been less active than any other country in the direct ion of expansion; that the German nation has no other wish than pacifi cally to mind its own business; even! such politicans frequently believe, or profess to believe, in spite of Ger many's love of peace which, ever since the German Empire came into exist ence, has been demonstrated by his tory to be an incontestable fact, that this peace-loving Germany ultimately, by force of circumstance of logical development, will be coerced 1 into annexing Holland and the Flemish part of .Belgium, containing the great port of Antwerp. "Usually it has been stated that Germany has an annual increase in population of 800,000, that these new masses must be supported by man ufactories, and that the German Emp ire will thus be - coerced, with or against its will, into expansion, in order to procure the raw material and to establish the requisite markets for its industrial growth. The annexa tion of Holland and Flemish Belgium, containing Antwerp, are described as a mere preliminary necessary to make possible such measures of ex pansion. Germany must enlarge its maritime basis, and should have con trol of the Lower Rhine and its har bors. To the alien, these arguments may seen plausible enough. Whoever is acquainted with existing conditions, however, knows, that though seem ingly plausible, this is not the truth. "In the first' place,' it is not true that colonial expansion is a necessity for Germany, resultnig from its in dustrial growth. The impetus given to German commerce and German manufactures is to be ascribed far more to the increase in buying capac- A Havana dispatch says there is a growing sentiment there tor an American protectorate or annexation. It is certainly trying to see a great and good friend pack up for a second departure, when a hurry call for his return is almost certain. Absolutely fireproof cars will run in the McAdoo tunnels, at New York, and the Pennsylvania railroad will have 85 of like construction in service by June 1. With two such important beginnings, the days of roasted wreck victims soon will be memories of the "barbarous past" ' Governor Sparks has appointed a carpenter as inspector of Nevada s new state police. - His friends say, however, that it is not to be inferred from this that the governor intends to build up a wooden force. The money stringency cuts no ice at least very little. The fine ice fields on the Hudson have been neg lected by the companies because of the hard times. . ' Quit Useful. "She has a very useful husband." "How do you make that out?" "He can always suggest something that he wants for dinner." Detroit Free Press. i A generous confession disana Blon der. French Proverb. ; coffee ; 1 Why do we drink so much poor coffee? Because good coffee is so good i i Tow pcr rtnrni row aonor M res aoa'l Mho Cctllllac't But: wt poy kia. iy of tnhet natkmt England, France, Ruia or America-than to all the German colume combined. Germany need no colonies, what ht wants is merely free competition on all e, the tqwn or, and the ri$hi to c operate freely on an equal footing w ith all other commercial and indus trial nation, in opening up new and as yet unopened district and markets. Hence the principle of the open door is the leading motivt of the foreign policy pursued by Germany. It is the red thread that winds itself through the Eastern Astatic, the Oriental and the Moroccan policy of the German Empire. The high qual ity of all German products obviated the necessity of unfair preferences accruing to political power. All they need is a fair chance to compete on equal terms with other countries. The world is large enough, and rich enough, in still dormant possibilities, to admit of a pacific cooperation by all nations in this great work. "It is equally absurd to allege that the annexation of Holland and Ant werp is a necessary preliminary to our colonial expansion. To have the harbors and ports of the Rhine con trolled by foreign powers naturally would be insupportable to Germany. The entire railroad and water-way system of Germany radiate towards the two main commercial centres. Bremen and Hamburg, which ss cur rent development has shown, are fully equal to meet all demands of traffic, and are capable of further growth. The Rhine, it is true, ia an important, and for the highly developed Rhine Province an indispensable "' water way. The export interests along the Rhine always naturally will prefer the shorter and cheaper all water route via Bremen. It is, however, matter of complete indifference to Germany, whether the vessels on the Rhine, carrying the products of the German Rhine countries to the ocean, on their journey pass along babks under the dominion of Germany, : Holland, or Belgium, for tbe traffic on the Rhine is free of all payments, obstacles or restrictions, and could not be more free even if Cermany controlled the adjacent districts. "And this freedom has been secured abundantly by the so-called Rhine-Traffic-Treaties, en tered into and upon by the interested states. ( ,,, , ' Vi The ocean commerce also in no wise suffers from the transportation of the Rhine products on the Rhine, as these German goods are re-shipped on German ocean steamers from the ports at the mouth of the river. "Hence the reason which supposed ly would impel Germany to annex the neighboring states, are deduced from false premises. ' "If we view the matter more close ly, however, and independently of the particular arguments which I advanced in the introduction give consideration to the situation of these three states in general, we find that no reason why Germany should be solicitous for annexation, or even for a union of economic interests. On the other hand there are quite a num ber why Germany should oppose an nexation or a union of economic in terests. Holland produces none of the raw materials required by Ger many for its manufactures. Belgium produces mejly coal and iron, which is the specific raw material of which Germany possesses a superfluity, and which is practically inexhaustible. Moreover, the coal and iron mines of Belgium have led to a splendid devel opment of the iron industry of that country, which is protected by a tariff, and manufactures for its own consumption and principally for Trans-Atlantic export. If the German Belgium boundaries were to be wiped out, the products - of this industry would depress the German internal market which, at present, is control led by the German iron Industry. Conversely, the German competitive products would depress the Belgian internal market. ; Thus, both German as well as Belgium" manufacturers possibly may desire an increased tar iffcertainly not its abolition. 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