THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1908.
The MORNING
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THE WEATHER
Oregon, Washington, Idaho Show
' ers and cooler.
A GOLD FACTOR.
Now comes a brilliant scientist, a
man of repute, of recorded achieve
ment, and declares he can, and will,
manufacture gold of a finess exceed
ing Government standards, at the rate
of $100,000,000 a year, at a cost of 10
cents on the dollar. He has discov
ered the secret of transmutation and
proposes to market it at an enormous
profit and to give his Uncle Samuel
the first go at it
No man of today, who is abreast of
the progress of the hour, is at all sur
prised;1 this thing has been expected
for thousands of years; and that it
comes now, in the common course of
big and marvelous developments
along scientific'lines, causes no ripple
of amazement, but takes its fixed and
leading place in the-commercial pro
gram, along with air-brakes, electric
lighted channel depths, wireless teleg
raphy and telephony, etc., etc.; and
as long as the secret is guarded in
violably and the processes remain un
patented as at present, it will be the
arch-triumph of the day. Once the
bars are down however gold - will
rank with copper and new standards
will rise with radium perhaps as the
crux.
Ten-cent gold has long been a
cherished dream of the editorial fra
ternity; we have yearned for it with
an earnestness paralleled only by the
hopelessness of the dream; and now
the blamed stuff comes hurlting along
with a commercial tag on it and all
the prescriptive barriers known to
the law and the obnoxious cupidity of
its discoverer and exploiters;, but dis
appointment is our daily portion, and
philosophy our refuge; hence, while
passively regretting, our exclusion
from the new field and its "Easy
street" program, we rejoice in the
marvel and wish it limitless success,
even to the undoing of Wall street.
ROESSLERIZE THE WORK!
If the government of this country is
anxious to have the Columbia jetties
completed within reasonable time and
at a cost within the appropriation just
maae in mat oenau, as ine people oi
the Columbia Valley are", Col. S. W.
Roesslcr will be retained at his post
in this district and given a free hand
in the work. The eternal shifting of
responsibility for this splendid im
provement has been the prime cause
for its useless dragging and long-
delayed completion.
The scheme needed Roesslcrizng,
and is getting it, to the abounding good
of the enterprise and the satisfaction
of the people of both States at inter
est, especially those of Oregon. The
man and his methods are wholly ac
ceptable here and there is no ques
tion whatever of the popular desire
to see the jetties finished. It is known,
too, that Colonel Roessler is particu
larly well disposed toward the dredger
system and will recommend the use of
one or more powerful machines on
the bar and in the river; that he will
do all that an officer and engineer of
his standing may do, toward the full
development and maintenance of the
commerce ot the Columbia. here-
fore, he is the right man in the right
place, and the Government at Wash
ington should be made to realize the
urgency and efficacy of his staying
right here, with ample authority and
means to wind up one of the most
notable, and sorely needed improve
ments in the country.
LABOR'S POLITICAL METAL.
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, gives forth the
warning, that unless the plea of labor
upon the bills'pending in Congress to
day, is granted, the country is going
to hear from organized labor at the
polls of November as it has never
heard before. And perhaps it were
well that the nation should get just
such a message from the wage-earners;
they are, numerically, the most
powerful factor in the electoral field
ot America, and certainly have a wide
margin of inspiration, and a long list
of approved claims subject to popular
correction and enforcement. But,
labor has slept on its rights for so
many years; has ignored the polls as
a medium for the accomplishment of
its ends, choosing ' the grosser and
more futile channel of the strike; has
failed so signally in sending its best
men to the front, politically; has al
lowed itself to be dominated so often,
and warped so far, by mere
"mouthers," instead of setting up its
clean, capable and responsible men,
that its threat of reprisals is taken
with a gran of salt by those who, un
der other conditions, would champion
their cause in a hundred ways. The
fact that they are going to enter the
field of national politics is of grave
interest and deep significance, provid
ed they do not come with wholesale
demands and unpoised champions.
They should know their own power,
and people, and use both wisely in a
; rational campaign for rational ends.
Ably led, with a moderate, primary,
schedule of real needs, there is no
reason why they should not take fun
damental place in the electoral
scheme of the country and command
the respect and success all great par
ties command when they present car
dinal and conscience-proven pleas and
programs.
EDITORIAL SALAD
Our 19 first-class battleships in the
Facitic, along with the record for the
best marksmanship, looks like a suf
ficient provision in that quarter to
keep the peace.
Two leviathan battleships, with sub
marines and other auxiliaries, could j
make a great defensive fight, and
Uncle Sam has no desire to be unduly
formidable in any other program.
An immigrant who landed in New I
York last week brought nine children j
and a plow. He can sell the plow to
museum of antiquities, and learn to
ride, American fashion, while the mel
low soil curls over.
With the mikado barred from the
stage and wooden Indians banished
from Oklahoma, the burlesque artist
will shortly be compelled to restrict
himself to such good humored folks
as John Bull and Brother Jonathan.
Alton B. Parker will head the New
York delegation at Denver, which is a
dramatic fact for thd contemplation of
Mr. Bryan. Mr. Parker will be as
welcome there to the Bryanites as
the apparition of Banquo'at the Mac
beth festivities.
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AN OPEN LETTER.
Editor of the Morning Astorian.
"Dear Sir: Last Saturday, and the
week preceding, there appeared in
The Astoria Herald articles on the
closing of the pool room on Com
mercial street. Messrs. Dugan and
Knudsen first took up sides with the
aforesaid pool room proprietors, but
later on, in the last issue of the paper,
the Herald editor went back on the
first week's article and, trying to
square themselves with the police
court commission and the force, they
attacked the place with vicious lan
guage, buch an attack, it seems to
me, is entirely out of place. It is not
for the Herald's editor to judge and
criticize this place. If Officer No. 3
had been taken into this place of busi
ness and presented witli cigars and
tobacco and occassionally with a drink
of whisky, this trouble would not have
come up. This, it seems, is done in all
other pool rooms in the city and now
that since the Commercial street pool
room has been closed, minors are now
playing in all the other pool rooms.
The proprietors of this Commercial
street room hereafter had better offer
the officers cigars or drinks every time
thatrthey pass his place of business.
"If the citizens of the city of As
toria are going to make this a 'holy
city,' pave the streets with doughnuts;
and if they do not wish their boys
ruined by being driven out of a place
of innocent pastime and amusement
they should see that this place is
opened up, even if necessary, with
some restrictions; for as sure as the
pool room is closed to stay closed the
minors will start visiting the 'red
light' districts, saloons and other
places not worth mentioning.
"This is my honest and candid opin
ion on this subject.
"Yours sincerely,
"CHAS. SODERBERG,
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