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THE MORNING ASTOR IAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1908. The MORNING ASTORIAN Established. 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINQttK w. STTRSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year.... t.. nrr month OU UJ tOlliv"! -" WEEKLY ASTORIAN. ; By mail, per year, in advance ....$1.50 Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, at the postomce ai Asiona, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March J, loy. tr Orders for the delivering of The idorning Astorian to either residence w place of business may be made by postal card or through telephone. Any vreeularity in delivery should be im- neaiaiciy icyv.iu publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THE WEATHER . , . Oregon, Washington, Idaho Fair and warmer. TO THE OREGON VOTER. As the representative paper of the lower Columbia Valley, the Morning Aftorian, conscious of its best duty to the people of this section and of the State at large, appeals to the j press and eiit5rate of all Oregon,) to stand by the salmon industry here; to sound the note of peril hanging over this industry (which employs 10,000 men and stands for an invest ment of $7,000,000 and an annual business of not less than $3,000,000), set on foot by less than a dozen men who are maintaining annihilative fish wheels on the upper reaches of the river and slowly, but certainly, kill ing the industry by destroying the spawn and fry of the salmon year by year in the lust of an unscientific, heartless and predatory business, and who, rich in the piracy, are spending thousands of dollars to blind the gen eral voter to the sheer evil they are perpetrating. Their deadly wheels are set at stragetic points on the banks of the .Columbia and so constructed that nothing wearing fins may get by them; the baby salmon, fingerlings, all must go into the devious ways . that lead to the treacherous traps, and when these wheels are emptied, the marketable fish are sorted out and despatched to the canneries, while the helpless, pitiful fry are bar reled and "sent to the near-by fields (secretly and in evasion of the law and its officers) to serve as offal and fertilizer for the land. If these buccaneers would but mesh, or guard, against the absorb- tion of the young fish, the weaklings, the output of the costly hatcheries, the crux of the next crop, the fish that are relied on to grow and come back in time to the general fisheries as a marketable product, such as the gill-netters at this end of the river are legally catching and selling and S canning as the years go by, some some sort of tolerance might be shown the "scavenger" end of this great trade (for all industries have their cheap and reckless hangers-on), but their processes are so thoroughly brutal and strike so immutably at the very life of the salmon fisheries of the Columbia Valley, that they are beyond all consideration of the man who knows a single fact of their free booting methods. The press of the State of Oregon owes it to the people it stands for, to investigate these things and to her ald forth the wretched and ruinous policy of these men who, in the gross assurance of their stolen wealth, are seeking justification at the hands of an uninformed people; and the people themselves should rise to the cry of their fellows for the salvation of a permanent and paramount interest and vote down the pernicious plea of the beggarly handful of men, who without labor, and but a paltry in vestment of a few thousands of dol lars, are wantonly wiping out a stand ard enterprise of Oregon and the Xorthwest. Astoria lies at the very heart of the salmon fisheries; her people know, to a man, woman and child, the danger that is confronting the trade by the longer use of the fish wheel, and she speaks for the thou sands of men and millions of money, whose living and investments are at stake in the present fish-fight; and she should not speak in vain. VOTE FOR THE GILL-NETTERS' FISH BILL AND SAVE THE SALMON INDUSTRY OF THE COLUMBIA VALLEY! CONVENTION OF GOVERNORS. President Theodore Roosevelt has summoned the Governors of", the States and Territories of the Ameri can Union to a friendly conference at the White House at Washington, on Wednesday, the 13th of May, and he has not overlooked the labor inter ests of the country and will have the brainiest, cleanest and most success ful man in the nation, in that rcla tion, present in the person of John Mitchell; Andrew Carnegie and scv eral other notables are on the list, and the presumption is that a con vention of such men will have to do with the largest and most popular of the current questions of the day, both in the abstract and the concrete, and that when these men leave for their homes and responsible places in life, they will have digested and championed some of the policies and plans of the best friend the common people of America possess. For the President would not go to this trouble if he had not some great, specific purpose; some broad and wholesome ideas to set on foot through the next and nearest chan nels of action such as this group will stand for. It is a step such as he might be expected to take; he Is one of the men who do things right and who strives to enlist the best influences at his hand in the prefect inij of the tasks be has set himself. We hope he will not be disappointed jn a single plan he is cherishing. Valuations and millage. We Americans are a pretty smart lot. But we are not shrewd enough to find a remedy for the supreme abuse and injustice that lies at the root of our tax sysUm. We have borne the shameful burden of non equalization of our tax values and millage so long that it has fitted it self to our shoulders as an indispen sable and unescapable garment. The preponderant influence always up permost in the public business of the land, the demand of the great and the rich, has kept the yoke on the commoner, until, at last, it has worn into even his almost undiscoverable quick, and is chafing sorely. We may have to go to Australia for the basic principle of our tax Inm .tic fie wr VAtlt ttlri. for ftllf 1prtinn law unA Trf Hrt what we have I to when the hour comes. A law that compels a man to return his prop erty, real and personal, at'a figure at which he would be willing to sell it at the hour of assessment, now the guiding principal of assessment in the antipodean government, would be a God-send in this benighted land where there is a wider latitude of shameless imposition in this regard than in any country on earth, and would appeal straight to the people most in interest; and what is more it could, and would be applied, with out injustice to those who would re sist it most. EDITORIAL SALAD Japan has purchased 3000 tons of rifle barrels in the United States. After looking over the entire field foreign buyers often spend their money here, not from sentiment, but as a matter of business. A British colonial governor in Africa has decided to introduce houses screened against mosquitoes, like those provided in the Panama zone. American sanitation in the tropics is well worth the world's at tention. Crop news is favorable, but farm ers are short of help. The unem ployed who are able to work at farming will find it a healthful voca tion, with fair pay, and the best op portunities to get on an independent footing. Senator Tillman says he has reach ed a point where he doubts the ca pacity of the people to govern them selves. When a statesman arrives at this conclusion he is not far from the trap door that will end his career. ft SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK, 506-508 Commercial St., Astoria, Oregon. PASTOR RESIGNS Innocently Officiated it the Mar riage of Divorced Cluple. CHICAGO, April 3.-A dispatch to the 'tribune from Garrett, lnd., says: Because he innocently ofheiated at the marriage of a couple both of whom had previously been divorced, the Rev. Harry J. Stevens, pastor of the Baptist Church, resigned yester day and will abandon the ministry to become an exile as a missionary in Africa. When the young preacher was cal led upon Saturday night to tic the nuptial knot for Leonard S. Wignot, a fort Wayne shoe merchant, and Lucy Miller of this city, he proceeded in the conventional manner, when it was all over the couple was happily united in the "holy bonds of wed lock", the clergyman discovered in signing the marriage certificate that both the bride and the bridegroom had been previously wedded and both divorced. It was too late to retract, but the minister was conscience stricken and he did not remain for the wedding supper. That night he prepared a special semon from the Twenty-third chapter of Jeremiah and delivered it to his congregation Sunday morning. Toward the cloje he made refer ence to his own violation of the Scriptural passage and during the prayer that followed he sobbed and his wife wept. Women were touched by the scene and wept in sympathy. Now the Rev. Mr. Stevens has declared him self unfit to preach the gospel am has resigned the ministry. ITS YOUR KIDNEYS. Don't Mistake the Cause of Your Troubles-An Astoria Citizen Shows How to Cure Them. . Many people never suspect their kidneys. If suffering from a lame, weak or aching back they think that it is only a muscular weakness; when urinary trouble sets in they think it will soon correct itself. And so it is with all the other symptoms of kidney disorders. That is just where the danger lies. You must cure these troubles or they may lead to diabetes or Bright's disease. The best remedy to use is Doan's Kid ney Pills. It cures all ills which are caused by weak or diseased kidneys. Astoria people testify to permanent cures. ' Theodore Josephson, SIS Seventh street, Astoria, Oregon, says: "About five years ago' I used Doan's Kidney Pills and derived great bene fit. I was suffering from severe pains across my back and my, loins and at times was unable to stoop or straighten. My kidneys also both ered me a great deal, as the secre tions were generally too free in pas sing. At last Doan's Kidney Pills were brought to my attention and I procured a box at Rogers' drug store. I began using them and my health" is now excellent. I take a few doses now and then, when feel ing any sign of backache and they never fail to banish the trouble." For sale by all dealers. Price SO cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the Uni ted States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. COFFEE Good grocers like Schil ling's Best, for it makes good-will and not trouble ; in case of complaint, the money is ready. Your grocer return! jour none? If yon doo' Mktltiwcpar dim. ' PRACTICAL POINTS ON BANKING-NO. 1. A check account with the Scandinavian-American Savings Bank af fords you the best facilities for the transaction of your banking busi ness which will be a help to you in financial matters. Small check accounts solicjted. Attractive pocket check books furnished free to depositors. Before the People Card of Candidate! In the Coming Campaign. I VOTE FOR J. A. GILBAUGH A tPrimary Election April 17, for Republican Nomination for COUNTY CORONER VOTE FOR C. A, Lelnenweber For Republican nominee for Repre sentative to the Legislature. Primary election April 17, 1908. VOTE FOR 4 ''''.' JOHN C. McCUE Republican Candidate for Re-election For Representative. Primary Election, April 17th. For Congress, T. T. GEER Candidate for Republican Congres sional Nomination in the Second Dis 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 say 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 of the tax payers of said District and State. E. B. TONGUE. VOTE FOR Geo. S. Shepard Republican Candidate For Represen tative in Congress. A Champion of the Columbia River Bar Improvhment, and in Favor of Postal Saving Bank. Primary Election, April 17th. Are now on display in our show windows. See how easy Mary- . , , , ..t ... - Ann turns the Handle. The Foard & Stokes Hardware Co j ' Incorporuttiri Successors to Fo-.rd & Stokei Co. SAVE A DOCTOR BILL BY DRINKING BASS' ALE AND GUINESS STOUT WITH YOUR DINNER" PUT UP IN NIPS. IT ?S A SYSTEM BUILDER. RECOM MENDED BY ALL PHYSICIANS. PRICE, $1.50 PER DOZEN. AMERICAN IMPORTING CO. 58D Commercial Street Sherman Transfer Co. HENRY SHERMAN, Manaier. Hacks, Carriages Baggage Checked and Transferred Tracks and Funrittnt Wagons Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped. 433 Commercial Street First National Bank of Astoria, Ore. E8TAHLI81IEI) IBM). Capital J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President Astoria Savings Bank Capital Paid in $100,000. Surplus and Undivided Profits, $80,000. Transacts a General Banking Business 1 Interest Paid on Time Deposit. FOUR PER CENT PER ANNUM. Eleventh and Duane Sta. Astoria, Oregon. John Fox, Pres. F. L. 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