THE MORNING ASTOR IAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1908.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Capital Paid in $100,000. Surplus and Undivided Profits, $80,000.
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