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8 't THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1908. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S, DELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year $7.00 By carrier, per month..... 60 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. y mail, per yur, in advance. . . .$1.50 Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, at the postoftice at Astoria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, IS Orders for the delivering of The Uorning Astorian to either residence tr place of business may be made by postal card or through telephone. Any regularity in delivery should be im mediately reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. biggest fleets that can be sent in this direction. For without some such early demonstration the cream of the Northwestern commerce is going to head in at the Puget Sound ports and the Columbia and Willamette Val leys will be left to hold the prover bial sack. It is time we were waking up and making use of the incomparable facilities furnished by the Columbia river. We uo not want our supreme advantage to lapse utterly through sheer inanition. AT THE FEAST OF ROSES. THE WEATHER Eastern Oregon and Washington, Idaho Cloudy; occasional rain. CONFISCATION!. F. A. Seufert, the trap-wheel mag nate, talks glibly about the terms and effect of the referendum bill of the Columbia River Salmon Protective Association (No. 332), declaring that its passage by the people of Oregon means deliberate and wholesale con fiscation of private property, his prop erty and that of his colleagues; and for once during the season of this grave contention he has told the plain and simple truth. The passage of that bill does mean the legal, timely, popu lar, and just confiscation of the most nefarious device ever constructed to ruin a fixed industry; it so plainly means that and nothing else, that no man with an honest concept of the honest issue at stake, will dispute him for a single instant. The fishwheels of the upper Colum bia have all but ruined the salmon industry of the great valley by th wanton slaying ot the try, spawn eggs, fingerlings and the unmarket able young of the gamey and beauti ful fish; the big, cormorantic machines were never built fo discriminate be 'tween the helpless baby-fish and the grown and saleable catch, and their hideous quality of absorbing every thing that comes their way, has been skilfully and most adroitly enhanced by the devious channel-building that permitted the young to go nowhere else than into the maw of these de structive things; and Mr. Seufert a master-hand at the construction of these death-dealing water-ways. Confiscatidn!. Of course it is con fi station; absolute, justifiable, right eous and wise, from every standpoint of humanity, every precept of decent commercial expediency, all cardinal rules of industrial traffic. It is that phase of confiscation whereby the people save to themselves and their heirs the potent interests that belong to them and to be preserved to them by even graver penalties than mere confiscation. It is high time the people of Ore gon and Washington were confiscat ing the wretched, ruinous, mechanical, murderous contrivances that have put a dozen hatcheries in both States out of business because the salmon seek ing their spawning-grounds have been trapped and slaughtered on their way there. This is the crucial charge and arraignment against the fishwheels and their owners; and if the effort to save these magnificent fisheries to the States at interest, is confiscation, then in the name of all that is wise and honorable and expedient, let the people (and Mr. Seufert et. als.) make the most of it!. Word has come down from the metropolis that the Astoria-car now building there, for the Rose Festival, s to be one of the most beautiful of the long line of artistic and represen tative coaches of the day. Chairman Lamar and his colleagues are to con gratulate on the outcome and all As toria will be anxious to see the splen did allegorical showing we are to make. The meagre hints that have been furnished us of design, coloring and effect, have whetted the public curiosity to a keen desire to see and know what we are offering; and it is just as well, perhaps, that we have got to go there to see it because of the customary proneness of the can takerous ones to disparage and criti cize everything, however carefully and successfully it has been achieved. But let it not be forgotten that there are other thousands who stand ready to applaud loudly and gratefully the success and merit that have wrought honestly and creditably for the city and there will be plenty of thanks and commendation for Mr. Lamar and confreres, when it is made mani fest that they have done their work well and thoroughly. EDITORIAL SALAD The United States now outnumbers Germany in both battleships and ar mored cruisers and two new battle ships a year will maintain the super iority. In naval program comparisons with any nation the United States shows well at the front. 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FREE TRIAL IRONING DAY is a picnic ; day with an ELECTRIC IRON FITS ANY SOCKET FITS ANY POCKKT ASK US ABOUT, ,IT ASTORIA ELECTRIC CO. DANGER IN DELAY. Kidney Diseases Are Too Dangerous for Astoria People to Neglect , DREDGE BAR AND RIVER. Everybody in Oregon who has given the matter any consecutive thought is earnestly and honestly anxious for the "Chinook" and any other of the great dredging machines of the State or Nation, to be put to work on the Columbia bar and river; and the hope is abroad that the $100, 000, or so much thereof as may be essential, will become available at once. But it is not forgotten that there was $80,000 spent on the boil ers of the "Chinook" a few years ago, and that she was laid up helpless within the year, so it will take some time to "repair" them again, and we are not over-sanguine of her early appearance on the scene down this wjay; unless it shall develop that she is actually all right, and that the defective-boiler yarn has simply been used by certain people in interest up Portland-way to keep her off the bar and river. out ue tnis as it may, we want to see her back at work; we want the bar and the river cleaned and deepen ed and made useable for the best and The great danger of kidney troub les is that they get a firm hold before e sufferer recognizes them. Health is gradually undermined. Backache, headache, nervousness, lameness, sore ness, lumbago, urinary troubles, dropsy, diabetes, and Bright's di sease follow in merciless succession. Don't neglect your kidneys. 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