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SAN FRANCISCO NEXT.
We do not know what the purposes
of the Northern Pacific Railway Co.,
in the matter of the sea-connections
for the Spokane, Portland & Seattle,
otherwise the "North-Bank", railway,
are, but we are going to venture a
suggestion, in the mere hope that it
coincides with the ultimate program
and in the interest of the road, the
cities of Astoria and Portland, and of
the Northwest, generally.
That is, that the N. P. (already the
most powerful competitor of the Har
riman lines up here), put on a swift
and frequent steamship service be
tween San Francisco and Astoria to
connect with the Astoria & Columbia
River Railroad and the S. P. & S.,
for Spokane and the East; two, or
three big, fine liners, capable of
handling all the freight and passen
gers that may. be commanded over the
splendid route; at least, until the larg
er, and inevitable, proposition of the
extension of the Hill system down
the coast from this city and Seaside,
is accomplished. Such a line ought
to be popular, with the three-fold
blend of sea, river and mountain at
traction; and as -a freight route, the
.water-level service between the two
great terminals should fix and per
petuate it as among the standards of
the Pacific Coast for all time to
come..
A couple of handsome steamers,
fast, roomy, and large carriers, doing
a twice-a-week-round-trip with a
freighter to ease off the over-plus,
and a commensurate train service out
of this port, up the glorious Colum
bia valley, to Portland and Spokane',
would be soon among the ideal traffic
systems of the country and as famous
as James J. Hill could hope to make
it Astoria longs to be a terminus
on a line of that sort, because it
comports so thoroughly with her un
escapable destiny.
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BY WAY OF DEMONSTRATION.
The Rose Festival to be held on
the 2nd of June next, at Portland, is
to be in a class by itself so far as the
Pacific Coast is concerned; for
beauty, scope and unique attraction
it will surpass anything ever put on
by the metropolis of Oregon or any
other live center of the Northwest.
The largest possible latitude is to be
allowed the Oregon cities and towns
that desire to contribute to its glories,
and its success is to be State-wide in
consequence.
Astoria is going to figure in the cel
ebration that honors and perpetuates
the glory of the Oregon rose, prim
arily, and all the other and manifold
attributes of the Beaver State, and it
is well that she should make a star
presentation of her share in the com
posite excellence of things Oregonian.
ian. We want this city to send a float
and delegation to Portland in this
interest, as shall at once, and for all
time, proscribe the intangible, yet
certain, anti-Astoria spirit that pre
vails up Portland-way. We want
that animus laid, and we want a new
sense of interdependence and friendli
ness created that will mean more for
both cities and the State; and we
know of no better way to accomplish
this than by sending there, on this
occasion, a car, and people, and mes
sage, that shall typify the new and
happier spirit
The work is in excellent hands for
just an outcome, and for the com
mon good of all concerned,, and the
supreme success of the event; it is
hoped there will be no let-up until
Astoria shall be rewarded with the
honor of a leading presentation in its
myriad achievements, . along with a
manifest better feeling at the metro
polis, in all ways. ;
A WRETCHED POLICY.
We believe we express the candid
and unanimous opinion of this whole
section when we declare that the re
moval of Col. W. S. Roesslcr from
the practical direction of the jetty
work at the mouth of the Columbia
river to be a grave mistake. He has
impressed everyone with whom he
has come in contact in this relation
as being eminently fitted for bringing
the huge task to final and satisfactory
conclusion; he has the confidence of
every man in this country and of the
department to which he belongs, and
his recall is a serious and regrettable
piece of departmental stupidity.
The policy of the government in
taking capable men away from such
big enterprises just when they have
attained the mastery and faculty of
perfecting of it, is deplored all over
the country, and found its worst ex-
oression in the earlier stages of the
Panama canal works. Colonel Roessler
is a man of ability in his profession
as a military engineer, and was doing
good and devoted work on the great
trust confided to him here; and what
of compentency his successor, pre
sumably Major Langhtt, shall bring
to the work, will not compensate for
the injury done the project in the re
moval of Colonel Roessler. The
change is an official blunder, that is
all there is to it!
SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN
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Courteous and Accommodating
LibcralJMcthods. .Conservative Management
EDITORIAL SALAD j
The Japanese jingoes look like a
reality to their unprepared neighbors
in China.
The Ohio Republican platform beats
in Ohio must not forget to carry the
State by the usual majority.
Chicago is a wide-open town, but
the aphorism that "everything goes"
does not apply to the anarchists.
The end of Goebelism is bitter, as
its beginning was tragic. It is best
to respect the ballot in a nation that
is founded upon it
The Ohio Republic platform beats
all productions of the kind in treating
senatorial courtesy as totaly immaterial.
Tariff revisionists who say they are
not for protection should not go so
far that their changes would be
equivalent to free trade.
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J century pi taiamuj uo oui
taught builders or owners of property
where crowds assemble that exit
doors should open outward, never inward.
Snator Gore calls Oklahoma the
'most overwhelmingly Democratic
State in the Union." Kentucky was
once a Democratic Gibraltar, but it
became sick of bad politics.
ANNUAL REPORT.
Of Public Health and Marine Hos
pital Service of the U. S.
Dr. J. M. Holt in command of the
Columbia River quarantine (and Ore
gon sub-ports, Marshfield, Newport,
Florence and Gardner), has just re
ceived from Washington, the annual
report of the public health and ma
rine hospital service of the United
States for the fiscal year 1907.
It is a volumne of 142 pages not
so very big but as full of tersely told
facts and figures that it could not
be digested in a month.
Among the interesting recommen
dations of the surgeon-general is that
two new grades should be established
to prevent stagnation in the matter of
promotions, namely, those of medical
inspector and medical director.
To form some idea of the amount
of work done by this important
branch of the government the report
of the Columbia River , quarantine
says: "Forty-two steamers and 76
sailine vessels were inspected and
passed; 2086 crew on steamers, 1992
crew on sailing vessels, 19 passengers
on steamers and 396 passengers on
sailing vessels were inspected.
The tables in the back of the book
are very interesting and one could
spend considerable time with profit in
perusing them, j
Before the People
Cards of Candidate in the Coming
Campaign.
For Congress,
T. T. GEER
Candidate for Republican Congrea
sional Nomination in the Second Dii
trict Liberal Appropriations fo
Waterways, Equal Opportunities an
Privileges for Labor and Capital, an
Governmental Control of Corpora
tions.
To The People.
In submitting my name to the elec
tors of the Fifth Judicial District for
their consideration for the office of
District Attorney of said District, I
desire to ssy that if I am nominated
and elected, I will, during my term
of office, honestly, vigorously and
impartialy perform all the official
duties pertaining to said office, with
out fear or favor, endeavoring always
to accord to every individual, irre
spective of party, politics or person
alities, a square deal under the law,
keeping always uppermost in my mind
the interests tl the tax payers of said
District and State.
E. B. -TONGUE.
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Soldier-Are we safe here, with your
master's wine and cigars?
Valet-Perfectly. I told him not to
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Blatter. '
Up to Oats.
Bank Cashier Madam, I have so
doubt this check la all right, but you
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Fair CallerI know It, sir. I have
read all about such things and know
what your rules are. I have brought
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Chicago Tribune.
An Excuse.
Lazenbce What did you say, my
dear?
Mrs. Lazenbee I say now that you've
got your new suit, don't you think
you'd better come to church with ma
this morning?
Lazenbee I guess not! It makes a
suit of clothes look fierce to go to
sleep In It. Philadelphia Press.
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Annual Convention Being Held in
Washington This Week. 1
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IS INTERNATIONAL THIS YEAR
Mere Man Doesn't Figure in This
Convention, With Two Exceptions
President Roosevelt and David
Graham Phillips. ,
WASHINGTON, Mar. 18.-There
is one week in the year when Sena
tors are back numbers, even in the
Capital, and when Congressmen
shrink into complete obscurity. Thai
is when the Mothers' Congress as
sembles for its annual convention
which is now in session here for a
week. Heretofore these yearly
gatherings have been made up of
American women only, but this year
the meeting has been made interna
tional in character and mothers have:
been in attendance from Persia, Tur-'
key and other far off countries. Alt
sorts of questions, from child labor
and civic betterment to cooking dem
onstrations and discussions of how to
make a boy mind without using the
slipper, have been takenup and set
tled with much more expedition than
is shown by the Congress at the other
end of Pennsylvania Avenue in dis
posing of its business.
Mere man has cut a very small fig
ure in the' proceedings as a whole, hut
two individuals of the masculine per
suasion have come in for considerable
attention, in one case flattering and in
the other decidedly unflattering. The
first of these is President Roosevelt
who received the mother at the White
House on Monday and made an ad
dress in which to tell them that they
were really the backbone of the na
tion and its hope of righteousness
and that without them the country
would go straight to the bow-wows.
Naturally, the mothers were pleased
with this, ami the President's en
dorsement of most of the reforms
they favor has caused him to be very
popular. If the Mothers had votes
Senator Bourne's "second elective"
campaign would have been able to
show a clear majority in Washington
this week. On the subject of race
suicide, however, the Congress has
declined to commit itself either for
or againsj the President's well-known
views.
The other man of whom the indi
vidual members of the convention
have expressed a strong opinion is
David Graham Phillips; the well
known novelist and magazine writer,
It is fortunate for Mr. Phillips that
he was not in Washington this week.
Even at the safe distance of New
York his ears must have tingled at
some of the remarks launched in his
direction. Some of them have de
clined even to mention his name in
their remarks but have referred to
him as "that horrid man." The
trouble with Mr. Phillips, from the
point of view of the Mothers, is that
he has written a book which he calls
"Old Wives for New" and in which
he discusses divorces and some al
leged shortcomings of the American
wife and mother in a way that the of
ficial mothers of the country as re
presented here object to most strenu
ously. The book is just out and
reached Washington about the same
time as the delegates, and immeriate
ly set them buzzing.
The Congress of Mothers is on
record as being strongly opposed to
divorce. They believe in making it
more diff'cult instead of easier, and
they resent the novelist's suggestion
in his book that wives are really re
sponsible for a majority of divorces
by destroying ideals constructed by
their husbands before marriage,
which the latter would be glad to
preserve if they could, There are
also some remarks in the book about
the neglect of their personal appear
ance by women after marriage and
how they are compelled to resort to
cast-iron corsets and fat-reducing
measures to which the mothers.espec
ially the considerable proportion of
them who appear to be dangerously
near the 200-pound ' mark, took vio
lent exception. At one stage of the
proceedings some of the more fiery
delegates considered the introduction
of a resolution censuring the novelist,
but this was not done -as others point
ed out that it would be hardly fair as
there were other - offenders in the
same category, some of, whom are
women, Consequently the ' writer
escaped the ' public reproof which
many of the "old wives" would have
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