THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1908.
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THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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Established 1873.
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THE WEATHER
Oregon Cooler except near the
coast
THE JETTY NEWS.
The reports from the new official
survey of the Columbia river bar, is,
to say the very least of it, cheerful
and encouraging. It has the sanction
of the Government and is given out
on the testimony of Col. V. S. Roess
ler, an engineering officer in whom
both the Government and the people
have confidence. It is in direct con
formity with the expectations from
the jetty work that has been going
on for the past score of years and is
an item that was looked for, now that
the great work is nearing completion
and should show some signs of doing
the work it was designed and built
to do.
At all events it is officially declared
that there is 26 feet of water there at
mean low water, and such a state
ment, while susceptible of denial and
disparagement, must be so treated
that there may be no doubt left in any
man's mind, of the correctness
claimed for it. And we hope there
may .never come any authentic dis
claimer, since it is vitally essential to
Astoria and the whole Columbia
valley, including Portland, that the
bar shall be cleared to the best com
mercial depths, and held at them,
forever.
CLEVELAND.
Grover Cleveland is no more!.
With the passing of this man dies
all the conflict of opinion that swept
the nation during his official career as
President. There are thousands to
say, even yet, that he was ever a
great man; but to that falls the in
variable answer that no living man
ever twice filled the American presi
dency who was not great. The qual
ity of greatness varies as does that of
the lesser; and to the impartial his
torian must be left the degree of fame
and faith to which Mr. Cleveland as
pired and arrived.
There he was an earnest, vigorous,
type; a man of substance and cour
age there are none to question nor
forget. That he was a fine type of
the home-building and home-loving
American has always been conceded
to him by those who admired him
least. That he was a thinker, a rea
soned a man of ideas and convictions,
with the knowledge and power to
enforce them upon the sense and con
science of an immense following, has
always been admitted, even by his
enemies; and that he blundered at
some critical moments of his great
career has long since been forgiven
him because of the political martyr
dom wherewith he paid for the mis
take of the hour.
The impress of his life and char
acter will remain part and parcel of
the national record, and disparage
ment will never reduce, by the veriest
fraction, the honor that is due him as
public servant and private citizen.
THE HOLDING COMPANY.
The Morning Astorian is glad of
the movement to establish the elec
trical system of railway that is to
connect this city with the coast re
sorts, and intends to encourage it and
aid it in all possible ways; but, speak
ing for many people, it regrets the
fact that the subsidiary company, or
holding company, set up to carry the
equities of the concern until the ful
filment of certain engagements
was not made up of others than those
directly interested in the main and
original company. It would have
given wider satisfaction in the com
munity and would have served the
company's interest better to have
placed the cestui qui trust in the
hands, of the Chamber of Commerce,
,jof some of the leading and respon
sible citizens, rather than to have as
signed it to hands and interests al
ready heavily engaged in the project.
This, without disparagement of the
gentlemen constituting the holding
company; they are unimpeachable, of
course; but they are not exactly the
ones to take over the responsibility.
of seeing to it that they themselves
shall do the full and faithful thing,
however perfectly they may do it. . A
quasi public trust of this sort is
usually given into hands that are
supposedly riisnnterested.
EVERYTHING FOR ALL,
Social reformers who want society
organized on the communal plan start
with a most attractive Idea. Tbe
world Is tendiug toward democracy,
the equal rights of everybody In every
thing there is for human comfort and
welfare. But It Is certain to occur to
many people that the change .from
private ownership to communal owner
ship would not make a very radical
difference In the distribution of the
good things of life, jet it might lessen
the production of things, and In the
end the mass would not be the galucr.
For at least a century democracy has
had a fair swing and progress has
been made under sharp private com
petition. Under the reign of competi
tion the distribution has grown wider
and wider, and now, when competition
is fiercest, tbe distribution is tbe most
liberal In the history of the modern
world. Everybody shares In about
everything that Ib of real Importance
in life.
Steam power was a wonder worker
when applied to commercial activities.
Electricity supplements steam as a
power and also furnishes illumination.
There are few people In this country
today who are not benefited by steam
or electricity, or both. Yet no commu
nity invented these forces. Individuals
wrought out the wonders. The noble
man and lord of ancient days had at
command no such agents of power as
the laboring man has today. A hundred
years ago musical instruments were
the property of the few. Today almost
every Cottage has one or more musical
instruments. The phonograph gives
to the humblest toller today what a
lord of the past could not have bad
even by pawning his realm. The com
munal plan would make the phono
graph the property of everybody that
is, if there should be a phonograph
when the distribution takes place.
Perhaps there would be none, and none
of the various inventions which con
tribute so much to the world's prog
ress and comfort Inventors' royalty
Is about all that stands In the way of
making the phonograph and other like
Inventions as cheap and common as
the advocates of communal ownership
think they should be. But if Edison,
for instance, were to offer to forego
his immense royalties, provided his
physical burdens should be shared pro
rata by every user of his inventions,
would the public take him up? Here
Is the idea in a nutshell. Things that
count in our lives are cheap consider
ing what it has cost somebody to pro
duce them.
Money doesn't stay with the Indi
vidual now as it once did, perhaps.
The reason Is that money will pur
chase so much that is worth having
for the work it will do. Formerly all
kinds of machines, all kinds of books,
of pictures, of works of art, were rare
and expensive. Only the fortunate
few could have them. Now these
things are common, they are cheap,
and almost everybody has all they
need and can use. J. P. Morgan gets
no more delight looking at a picture
which costs him a fortune than does
the man who buys a reproduction of it
for a dollar or two, maybe less. Mor
gan owus it, of course owns its ficti
tious value but may never see It more
than half a dozen times In his life, for
he doesn't live in his picture galleries.
The other owner sees bis copy every
day, if be wants to, and is the pos
sessor of whatever real value there is
In the picture.
After all, there may be a fallacy in
this idea that a distribution of owner
ship will increase happiness. Tbe
wider -distribution of things, the in
finite multiplication of rare and good
things, bringing them within the reach
of the purses of the mass, has already
revolutionized life within a century.
The end of this process of multiplica
tion and distribution is not in sight,
and it may reasonably be questioned
whether the competitive system Is,
as some contend, Inadequate to give
everybody a square deal In everything
necessary to human happiness.
To Put Bucket Shops Out of
Business ,
POSTAL AUTHORITIES WORK
Every State in the Union is Open
ing Batteries Against the Bogus
Concerns Especially by Governor
Folk of Missouri
WASH I N'GTON, June 24. - The
Postoffice Department, which in 1S
took a hand in the efforts of local
and state authorities to put the
bucketshops out of business, has now
an accumulated batch of information
that indicates that the fight is nearly
won. These concerns are being put
out of business in one way -and an
other this year very rapidly.
Right under the nose of the De
partment one vaudacious individual,
Percy Wade, continued business until
this Spring, when his doors were shut
by the District authorities and he
went to jail for 30 days.
In a message to Congress by Presi
dent Roosevelt, he referred to the
importance of the buckctshop evil.
"The great bulk of business", he
said, "transacted on the exchanges
is not only legitimate, but is neces
sary to the working o' our modern
industrial system, and extreme care
would have to be taken not to inter
fere with this business in doing away
with the bucketshop type of opera
tions." Because of the discredit to
legitimate business from the counter
feit concerns, those which deal only
in differences and fluctuations in quo
tations which they steal from the ex
changes by wire tapping, the ex
changes have been zealous in the
fiirht acainst them, the Chicago Board
of Trade having expended hundreds
of thousands of dollars in assisting
the postal and other authorities in
fighting the bucketshops in the courts
The great asset of the fraudulent
concerns is in their semblance of a
real brokerage business in tele
graphic apparatus, kept clicking
busily, in blackboards, handsome
furniture and rugs. By shamming the
transactions that are vital to the
farmers and business men of any
them and lured them into venures
that have no more to do with real
grain and real stocks than a mirage
has to do with a real casis in the
desert. Most of the defaulters and
others have been found to have lost
their money in bucketshops, although
they have used the phrase "lost on
the board of trade," being unwilling
to be classed as bucketshop patrons.
The cashier of a national bank at
Aurora, 111., short $60,000, lost his
money in a bucketshop in Hammond,
Ind., which had been driven out of
Chicago, but asserted the money'
went "on the board of trade". Such
cases as this give point to President
Roosevelt's words quoted above.
Point is given to his words also by
the fact that an anti-bucketshop law
recently passed in Oklahoma has
driven out of the state the legitimate
brokers as well as the bucketshops,
for lack of discriminating provisions
in the law, such as President Roose
velt called attention to as being nec
essary in wise legislation on the sub
ject. In Cincinnati recently, thirty-four
indictments against bucketshops
I were returned at one time. One of
I these was against a firm that con
j troled 170 branches", located in var
ious states, and reported to have an
! annual income of $2,000,000. Another
, firm was doing a business estimated
at $1,500,000 annually, with its wires
j from Florida to Salt Lake City, and
boasted that before the next snow
! it would have wires to the Pacific
! coast. Morehead & Company, a firm
1 with its manification of wires in Chic
ago and elsewhere, and an extended
wire service, have been forced to
quit. These great leaders of the frat
ernity practically cqntroled the entire
business of the United States.
The fight is now fairly on, and
every State in the Union is opening
its batteries against these bogus con
cerns. One of the heaviest blows yet
dealt them was that of Governor
Folk of Missouri, when he demanded
the enforcement of the State law that
fixes the penalty of five years in the
penitentiary. Recently, during a
single twelve months, seven States,
Montana, Nebraska, Minnesota, Con
necticut, Missouri and Alabama pas
sed stringent prohibitory laws against
them.
These court decisions, far-reaching
as they are and valuable as they have
Moro proof that l.ydUx E. Tlnk
ham's wot a Me Com pound wives
woman from surgical operations.
' Mrs. S. A. Williams, of Gardiner,
Maine, writes:
" I was a great sufforer from female
troubles, and Lydla K. Pinkham'a Vego.
tablo Compound restored mo toheiittti
In three months, after my physician
declared that an operation was abso
lutely necessary."
Mrs. Alvina Sjierlinjr, of 134 Cloy,
bourne Ave Clnaigo, III, writes:
"I suffered from female troubles, a
tumor and much inflammation. Two
f the best doctors in Chicago decided
that an operation was necessary to save
my life. Lydia K. Pinkhnra'a Vegetable
Compound entirely cured me without
an operation." '
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia K. link
ham's Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands or
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcer.
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Kriodic pains, backache, that bear-jr-down
feeling, flatulency, indiges
tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. I'lnkham inritoa all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has jrulded thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
ASTORIA
THEATRE
F.M.Hanlin Lessee, Mgr.
!I Starting
Sunday, June 21
inaennue siock engage-
inent of tbe X
1 Georgia Harper t
Company
With the .charming
emotional actress, Miss
Haroer. and suDDorted
A A A I
by an exceptional cast of 2
lb artists.
Opening production
"NELL GWYNN"
Box office opens Sat
urday at 11 a. m.
Prices 15c-25c35c-50c.
proven, have in nowise closed the
contest; they have only cleared away
the rubbish, and exposed the ghouls
in the light of treir true character.
Such decisions cannot drive them
from the commercial field, but they
have torn off the disguise. When the
bucketshop form of thievery is an
nihilated, as it now seems likely to
be, it is claimed that the people .of
this country will make an annual
saving of $200,000,000.
A Lesson in Health
Healthy kidneys filter the impurities
from the blood, and unless they do
this good health is impossible. Foley's
Kidney Cure makes sound kidneys
and will positively cure all forms of
kidney and bladder disease. It
strengthens the whole system. T. F.
Laurin, Owl Drug Store.
The Best Pills Ever Sold.
"After doctoring 15 years for
chronic indigestion, and spending over
$200, nothing has done me as much
good as Dr. King's New Life Pills. I
consider them the best pills ever
sold," writes B. Y. Ayscue, of Ingle
side, N. C. Sold under guarantee at
Charles Rogers & Son's drug store.
25c
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Hacks, Carriages Baggage Checked and Transferred Trucks and Furniture
Wagons Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped.
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