SUNDAY APRIL S, 1908.
THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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THE WEATHER
Western Oregon and Washington
Showers.
Eastern Oregon and Washington,
Idaho Fair.
when the day of turbulence, trouble,
dismay or disaster arrives, and the
people say in their hearts, "Would
that John Mitchell were now In place
and power to save this situation."
then will it be known who, and what,
he was to organised labor and the
Government. We do not know his
successor well enough to forecast
his status, but if he shall approach
the fine broad boundaries fixed by
John Mitchell, the miner, he will have
made splendid use of the honors of
leadership lately thrust upon him.
ORCHARD.
' WHY THIS INDIFFERENCE?
The people of Astoria are naturally
anxious for specific information as to
the extraordinary indifference exhib
ited, here, and elsewhere, in the State
of Oregon, in regard to the threaten
ing conditions surrounding the Sal
mon Fisheries of the Lower Colum-j
bia.
Why is it that a beggarly group of
six or seven men with fish-wheels in
the upper reaches of the river, are
banded together, and spending money
like water, to save their predatory
machines and privileges from right
eous annihilation at the hands of the
voters at the June polls? Why have
these men gone into the initiative
field at all? Is it to save a right and
rational system of fishing; one that
conserves the industry, and builds it
up; or is it done by way of appeal to
an unthinking people in the hope of
save their dastardly, unfair, yet
money making processes?.
Why is it the big rich canners at
this end of the river, the men who
see the impending destruction of an
industry worth millions and involv
ing the labor of thousands, are sil
ent and inactive in the face and fatal
hour of such a campaign?
Why does the Oregon Fish Com
mission, at the inspiration of the
Governor of the State, at this same
critical moment, take from the great
industry the only man with a grain
of intelligent knowledge of its wants
and workings, and put it in the hands
of a stranger to the land, waters and
business?.
Why does the Portland Oregonian
usually the quick and forceful leader
in all such emergencies remain mute,
inactive; coldly indifferent to the per
il confronting an industry that is fa
mous the world over and has done
more for Oregon, and Portland, than
anything beyond the metropolitan
doors?.
Is there really a conspiracy against
the trade? Is it to be wiped out?,
or left without guidance, protection,
conservation? Is it to be thrown
wide-open to the slaughtering com
petetive invasion that all but ruined
it in its earlier years? Why all this
glaring indifference on the eve of the
1908 election?.
It may be the people of Oregon,
just and kindly and without bias, will
look into the ugly situation that has
arisen, before the day of judgement
comes with the dawn of June, and on
that day register their peremptory
protest and fiat that shall save to
them one of their leading industries
Without some such mediation as this,
we, of Astoria, confess ourselves un
done in this grave crisis, thrust upon
us by the very men to whom we nat
urally look for the salvation of the
fisheries. We abide our time with
want patience we possess!.
JOHN MITCHELL.
John Mitchell, the ideal labor
leader of America; the clean, true,
able and honored guide and friend of
the working millions of this country;
respected and trusted in high places
as well as in the lower levels; sane,
safe, well-poised, and influential to
the best and last degree in his sphere
broken down in health to such an
extent that he is forced to decline
the high honor of Federal Labor
Commissioner tendered to him by the
President of the United States, now
retires to long deserved and welcome
rest upon a small competency, and
with the abounding good-will of the
people of the nation.
Measured by some standards this
man does not amount to much: But
Why does a maudlin, sentimental
perversity deny this man Harry Or
chard the peace of death that he
craves?
He knows, better than any fool
friend he may possess, the utter
worthlessness of life to him, pardon
ed or unpardoned, in prison or out
of it; and if there is any real mercy
to be shown him, let him have his J
own longed-for death. The past,
the future, are to this man, dreadful
dreams, fraught with appaling facts,
not fancies; he shrinks from both
with a self-horror that is pitiful, and
yet pitiless; his due is death, and no
man living knows the deep truth and
justice of it all, as he knows it.
The nation is wearied with him; he
is soul-sick of himself; his life will
do no man good, least of all himself.
Ring down the curtain on the trag
edy of it all and give him the only
benefice he asks. It is the least we
can do!.
MR. CARNAHAN'S DEATH.
The extreme suddeness of the
death of Clark Wilson Carnahan has
accentuated the wide-spread sadness
wherewith it is regarded in this com
munity and made the realization of
the solemn fact difficult and painful
to all who have known him through
the years of his life here The elim
ination of well known and deeply ap
preciated characters from communi
ties of this scope where people and
histories and warm intimacies are
inter-changeably familiar, evokes
the last and kindliest expression of
genuine and popular feeling at such
dread surprises; and in the case of
the late Mr. Carnahan, this is pecu
liarly manifest. Astoria and Clatsop
county grieve for him unanimously
and very sincerely.
EDITORIAL SALAD
President Roosevelt has a good
ear for advice, especially if the advice
suits him.
Kentucky will have difficulty in ex
plaining to the historians how its So
ciety of Equity got mixed up with
murder, arson and Gatling guns.
New York City receives 11,000,000
eggs daily. The world could manage
to get along with a horseless era, but
how if the hen should be eliminated?
The vote on restoring the motto to
the coins was: Yeas, 259; nays, 5; not
voting, 120. But it is only fair to say
that an absentee is not necessarily
a dodger.
Eastern congressmen say the navy
ought to be big enough to take care
of both oceans. It is hardly neces
sary to add that their opinion on this
point is recent.
It is a dangerous theory the alien
ists are seeking to establish, that
when a man shoots a fellow-citizen
the evidence of mental irresponsibil-
ty is conclusive.
Gov. Johnson says he is willing to
be a candidate at Denver, which
seems inconsistent with his recent
lavish praise of Bryan as incompara
bly the greatest Democrat.
Speaking of ocean mail subsidies,
the nations that pay them liberally
stand first in their merchants marine.
In both respects the United States
have dropped near the bottom of the
list.
Charles V. Brown's For
mal Opening' of Spring
and Summer Shoes is a
Display That is Surely
Worth Seeing'.
It is with much pleasure we welcome you to our Annual Spring
Opening an opening of entirely new shoes, high class shoes, in
which we wish to give our patrons and friends the widest pub.
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iicity one in wnicn we win iurciuiy uemun- vEhsrmu.
strate that we are still the recognized shoe
house of Astoria. Our spring purchase is larg
er and more varied than ever before having
concentrated our best buying efforts in every
line, therefore enabling us not only to give you
more quality than heretofore, but to give you
more moderate and fairer prices than you can
find elsewhere. We have the swellest line of
Ladies Oxfords in lace and button, in the latest New York Styles,
and in blucher cut. New creations in pumps, narrow toes, short
vamps and all lasts. If you buy your shoes at BRO WN'iS you
know they are right.
CHAS. V. BROWN
ASTORIA, ORE.
The Family Shoe Store Man
PERSONAL MENTION
Swepson Morton, of Knappton,
was in town yesterday.
Miss Agnes Leahy, who has been
with the A. & C. railway people, as
stenographer ever since the staff was
removed to Portland, was a homing
passenger on last night's express
from Portland, for an over-Sunday
visit with the home-folks.
Frank N. Clark, president of the
Columbia Trust Company, was in the
city yesterday attending to some
business affairs, and will return to
the metropolis on this evening's
train.
Mrs. W. E. McAfee, who has been
seriously indisposed for several
weeks is about again and recovering
very satisfactorily.
Mrs. Capt. Tatton return from
Spokane accompanied by her brother
and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. William
Wright, of British Columbia.
BALL SEASON OPENED-
LOS ANGELES, April 4.-Four-teen
automobiles carrying the stock
holders of the Los Angeles baseball
club, city officials, players and "fans"
paraded through the streets today in
celebration of the opening of the
Pacific Coast league season and the
preliminary enthusiasm continued
throughout the game in which Los
Angeles beat Oakland by a score of
4 to 2. Mayor Harper of Los An
geles and James J. Jeffries consti
tuted the battery that handled the
first ball of the season.
PRACTICAL POINTS
ON BANKING-NO. 2.
Household Checking Accounts.
Every woman who makes purchases,
or has occasion to remit by mail, will
find a Checking Account with this'
Bank valuable and convenienta
saving of time and carfare a safe
guard against loss of funds. Your
account, subject to your check is very
cordially invited.
SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK,
SOfi-sna Commercial St.. Astoria. Oregon.
RESTRICTING SUNDAY WORK.
WASHINGTON, April 4. -The
President has directed that Sunday
work in the departments be re
stricted to that which is of emer
gency character and being strictly in
the public interest.
Accordingly, Postmaster-General
Meyer whose department has more
work on Sunday, than, perhaps any
other branch of the government, has
issued an order intended to minimize
Sunday work in the postoflice de
partment. It is understood the heads
of the other executive departments
will issue similar orders.
DIED AWAY FROM HOME.
TOXOPAH, Xcv., April 3-Joscph
Read, a veteran of the civil war,
an inmate of the Orting Soldiers'
Home, of Washington, on a furlough,
was found dead today in a Chinese
wash house. He complained of feel
ing ill and the Chinese put him in a
bunk last evening. He died during
the night. Heart failure is given as
the cause of his death.
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JUDGE WILLIAM E. BURKE
SEASIDE, OREGON
A Notre Dame Lady's Appeal.
To all knowing sufferers of rheuma
tism, whether muscular or of the
joints, sciatica, lumbagos, backache,
pains in the kidneys, or neuralgia
pairts, to write to her for a home
treatment which lws repeatedly cured
all of these tortures. She feels it her
duty to send it to all sufferers FREE.
You cure yourself at home as thou
sands will testify no change of
climate being necessary. This simple
discovery banishes uric acid from the
blood loosens the stiffened joints,
purifies the blood, and brightens the
eyes, giving elasticity and tone to the
whole system. If the above interests
you, for proof address Mrs. M. Sum
mers, Box R, Notre Dame, Ind.
COFFEE
A middling steak and
first-rate coffee are better
than middling: coffee and
first-rate steak. Con
sider the cost.
Your grocer relurm your money If yon doo't
Ilk Schilling's Beat: we pay him.
Candidate for Representative at the
Republican Primaries, April 17th.
PLATFORM.
1 favor the retention of C. W. Ful
ton in the United States Senate, but
will obey the instructions given by
the people of Oregon next June, on
the following bill:
"That we, the people of the State
of Oregon, hereby instruct our Rep
resentatives and senators in our
Legislative Assembly as such officers,
to vole for and elect the candidates
for United States Senator from this
State who receive the highest number
of votes at our general elections."
In addition will favor the enact
ment of the following measures:
1 Four-year term for county offi
ccrs.
2 Collection of taxes by the
County Treasurer.
3 Divide Fifth Judicial District by
joining the Counties of Clatsop and
Columbia.
4 A prosecuting attorney for each
county.
5 Safeguard deposits in banks.
6 Pure food law, and regulation of
weights and measures.
7 Preserve natural resources of
State including water powers and
limit franchises to twenty-five years.
8 Better protection for salmon.
9 Voter not to be required to re
register except a he changes his
place of residence.
1(1 Continuation of Roosevelt Pol
itics. Port of Astoria, Sea Wall and
Deepening of Columbia River Bar,
AT THE CHURCHES
First Baptist.
Morning service at II a. m sub
ject, "Believers' Baptism." Sunday
school at 10 a. in. Evening service
at 7:30 p, in,, subject "The Appeal of
Truth," Rev. Conrad L Owens, pas
tor.
Christian Science.
Service in I. O. O. F. Iniildkfk.
rooms 5 and 6, Tenth and Commer
cial streets at 10 a, m,, subject "Un
reality." All arc invited. Sunday
school, 11:30. Reading room same
address, hours from 12 to 5 daily, ex
cept Sunday.
Holy Innocents Chapel.
Fifth Sunday in Lent, Morning
service and holy communion, 10 a.
m.; Sunday school, 11:15 a. m. No
evening service; the missionary will
hold service at Seaside on Sunday
evening at 7:45 p. m.
First Lutheran.
Sunday school both at the Upper
town and at the German Lutheran
Church at 9:30 a. m., Miss Alema
Nyland and Mrs. A. Young, superin
tendents. Morning service in Swed
ish at 9:45; evening service in Eng
lish at 7:30; theme from our Lord's
Passion. The Luther League Circle
meets ' for devotional exercises at
6:30 p. m.
Presbyterian.
Morning worship, 11 o'clock; com
munion service, "Not of Words, But
of Works." Sabbath school, 12:15;
Y. P. S. C. E., 6:30; evening wor
ship at 7:30, "Undefeated Lives."'
Quartet at morning service. Male
chorus at night, All are invited. wV
S. Gilbert, pastor.
First Methodist.
Sunday's sermon themes: Morn
ing, "Warring Nature." Evening,.
"Waiting." C. C. Rarick, pastor. ,