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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON,
TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1908.
THE MORNING
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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.
A member of the British Parlia
ment proposes to replace the mail
service by a system of cheap teleg
raphy. If the popular impression of
messenger boys is correct this change
would be a loss of time on the aver
age. Besides, the writers of love let
ters don't want to telegraph them.
A Democratic paper wants to know
what the Republican party means by
its promise of tariff revision. Itl
means protective duties suited to the
country's conditions and best inter
ests. It means a straightforward,
thorough condemnation of free trade
in the future as in the past.
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An English Army officer who has
inspected a new electric cannon, says
it can deliver projectiles up to a
velocity of nearly six miles a second,
and that it "deluges an area" rather
than hits a single point, working as
readily at a range of IS miles as an
ordinary battery at three. These me
chanical wonders are frequently an
nounced, but the thing that gave the
English the most trouble in the South
African war was the Boer marksman-
hip with ordinary rifles.
FREE TRIAL
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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. Cure the
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loins often extending through the
whole muscular system as far up as
the shoulders. Not only did my
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I heard about Doan's Kidney Pills,
procured a box at Rogers' drug store,
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their use until cured. I know of
others who have used Doan's Kidney
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