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THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1908. 2 StatartmL -.jurttWl Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year i ....$7.00 By carrier, per month 60 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance ............ ..$1.50 Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, a' the postoffice at As toria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. , Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence or place of business may be made by postal .card or through telephone. Any irregularity in delivery should be immediately reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THECWEATHEB Oregon Showers north, fair south. Washington Showers west, east showers and thunderstorms. ! PUBLIC PATIENCE. The American is famous the world over for the calm endurance of his patience as a victim of insiduous pub lic evils that spring from the quasi public, corporate lines of business wherewith he deliberately surrounds himself. It may be that the con sciousness of his personal responsi bility for these things, as an indif ferent elector and citizen, has much to do with the equanimity he shows in the long-drawn crises and after math of corporate intolerance. Astoria is but one of ten thousand American communities that are bear ing the burden of imposition in this regard, and she is a luminous light in the constellated 'field of imbecile pa tience. She is becoming historic for the supiness with which she permits herself to be overridden, and is but just awaking to the sum and scope of her burdens. t The hour is at hand for a general overhauling of the public service cor porations of the land, and the re-adjustment of their relations to the public that created them, and this city is strictly in the van of that move ment. She has her claims, many and strong, for amendment of the serviecs and the costs thereof, to which she has been subjected for years, and which she must resist and qualify thoroughly, if she would have sur cease from insolent and gratuitous imposition. The reign of graft in this land of ours has fastened upon us more than the evil of raw theft of money; in its train are hundreds of correlative wrongs and abuses and minor phases of piracy that go to make the huge system at which American patience is at last rebelling hotly and widely all over the country. The public is mer ciless in its repisals at times, and, while it is primarily blameable for all it suffers, it still possesses the in alienable right to redress the worst results of its own folly and call down the play of justice and decency for the common good. r. : STEAMER RACING. Nobody, with a drop of sporting blood in his veins, really blames the master of a fine swift steamer for in dulging in an occasional brush with an opponent that happens to own a vessel in that class, so long as human safety is kept to the fore and the record-making does not involve di rect and serious loss of life and property. But it is very essential to choose a course that is open, free, and amenable to the event and not likely to suffer because of it. The Willamette river, even at its . confluence with the Columbia, and from there back to the Portland front is not wide enough for such sporty maneuvers as steamer racing; in fact, the channels there are so meagre and cramped we are at a loss to ac count for the extraordinary risks taken now and then by the river cap tains that indulge the game. The delicate and dangerous task of pass ing a flying competitor is one to stall the hardiest pilot, and though it is done once in awhile, the sucessful man ahvay reduces the sum of his victory by the re-action inseparable from the perilous risk he has taken in the doing of it. And again, the restricted limits of the Portland "harbor" make it ruin ous sport at all times, since the wash from the contesting steamers does in- stant and infinite damage all along the route. It's all right for racing little dinky craft like motor boats, or for sculling matches, or even swimming events; but it is' no place for the big and spirited events. The steamer captains should reserve their races AFTER THE SULTAN Young Turkey Movement Rapid ly Becomes Formidable DESIRE A CONSTITUTION The Revolutionary Propaganda Per meates All Classes And Is Making Fast Headway, Despite The Fact That It Lacks A Strong Leader. LONDON, July 23,-DetaiIs recei ved here of the crisis of a large sec tion of the army with young Turkish sympathies are still somewhat ob scure, but it is evident that the Mil tub" for real racing men. for the wider waters of the Columbia river or for this harbor, where the play of the displaced water dies be-jtan has bce drivfn t0 doP stronK fore it reaches any land m sight and(mea does not brim? havoc to the foot-near .tlon of pedestrians tro town. Come down ' The present crisis appears to have here and do your racing, gentlemen; been the result of genera! discussion, there is real room and water here,. bc"'y of the sultan's troops in the and sports enough to enjoy it. You'll , Monastir district, discontented with ruin that narrow little basin up there, thcir Py. bad iood anJ clothing have if you're not careful; and besides, it's, Wen under the influence of the too much like "sailing chips in f young Turkey propaganda and mu- (timed. the loading teatures ot the young Turkey movement are a de mand for constitutional government and opposition to any F.nropean in terference, on the ground that it would mean the ultimate separation of "Macedonia from the Ottoman em pire. As it is admittedly hopeless to ex pect the sultan to grant parliamenta ry rule, the Young Turkey demand is really for the abdication of the Sul tan to enable the inauguration of the constitution. The adherents of the Young Turkey faction are scattered among all classes of tradesmen and officials and the movement evidently is making great headway, although at the present time it lacks a strong lea der. During the past week numerous assassinations of officers- under sus picion of being reformers to Young Turkey have been reputed from Ma cedonia while Greek outrages against Bulgarians tend to strengthen the re formist movement because the Bul garians are likely to make common cause with the Young Turks. DECLINED THE MASCOT. The big Republican candidate for Presidential honors, Hon. William H. Taft, has been compelled to de cline the gift of a mascot elephant at the hands of a warm admirer back East, and will "go it" minus the mammal supposed to typify the party and its glory. The jolly Ohioan may have concluded that the elephant was altogether too ponderous and rotund; too fit a subject for comparative and personal allusions, in a ribald press, that might forget itself in the sug gestive fun of the hour; or he may have declined it on the groiyid that the pachyderm was too slow a trav eling mate for a twentieth-century candidate, alive, alert, amenable and active as he is; at all events he has passed it up and will rely for success upon the wisdom of his countrymen and his insuperable claim upon it. Mr. Taft has, in a large sense, been the mascot of the Rooseveltian era and is the logical heir to, and repre sentative of, its honor and prestige. The friend and counsellor and peer of the ablest, cleanest, strongest exe cutive the nation, has known in near ly half a century, has a claim to the succession that will never be lost sight of, and will be realized upon for the mere safety and satisfaction that comes from taking the next . and nearest to the real thing thaf has been denied us; and upon this hypothesis alone the election of Mr. Taft is pratcicaly admitted in the reasoning of the common people who intend to realize as much in their disappoint ment as possible. He needs no mas cot; and if he did he has one in the manful confidence wherewith Theo dore has urged the claim of his mate, mentor and fellow-citizen upon the national thought. The third nomination of Bryan was not the best thing for the party, butj the best he would permit. No Bryan crowd ever went wild over the returns in November. There's method in making the noise in July. A phrenologist who makes a map of Mr. Bryan's head saves his face by stating that the Nebraskan has a large organ of language. In Switzerland 20,000 women have engaged in watchmaking. If the men are smart they will keep their eyes on farming. There's billions in it. The year's record for the long jump rests with the Mexican revolu tionists when they hear Diaz men tioned as approaching the neighborhood. On the morning of November 4 Mr. Guffey will remind the Demo crats that he called Bryan "the most impudent, demoneering, devastating boss the Democratic party has ever known." made a definite announcement con cerning the Vanderbilt cup race but the course acleclcd and other details of the race promised by July 1 were not made public. Sec. Elliot's offic ial statement issued after the meet ing declared Jhcre would be a "sub stantial number of foreign cars in the contests and Unit an elimination race for the American cars would be pro bably neeesunry. The action taken was the appointment of a committee to scrutinize requests for sanctions growing out of' the trouble in Phila delphia over the sanction1 for a race meet at Point Nreeiee for nest Satur day. The sanctions had subsequen tly to be revoked and to avoid diffi culties. Henry T. Clinton, Frank G. Webb, and A. B. Pnrdington were named to investigate all applications. A condition of sanction hereafter will be the appointment of satisfactory racing officials, lists of which must be submitted' with the application. FOR BIG MERGER. Stockholders May Consolidate The Rio Grande Lines. DENVER, Colo., July 23.-Stock-holders in the Denver and Rio Gran de Railway and the Rio Grande Wes tern will hold a meeting this after noon to ratify the plan for consolida ting all the Rio Grande railways in Colorado and Utah excepting the Rio Grande Southern and to authorize an issue of $130,000,000 in bonds. The new oond issue' win Be used to re tire the outstanding bonds of the Rio Grande Company and to finance the construction of the Western Pacific, the new Gould line from Salt Lake to San Francisco. It is stated that none of the big ofticals of the Gould line will be pre sent at the meeting. Local officials of the Rio Grande have been furnish ed with proxies which will be cast when the several matters taken up are voted upon. The disposition of the Utah Fuel Company, the stock of which is owned by the Rio Grande Western will not come before tomor row's meeting and will be held in abeyance until the test case now in the courts in the East decides the constitutionality of the laws prohibit ing railroads from owning coal com panies doing an interstate business. PLATINUM DECLINES. A m m II linimrnmnrit Inrnnntnrl A u. u. uuvui Milium mojjuuiuu AaI.JJ. II :i ! I : J n uuiuiiiijia naiiis ami uhuuii EVER Y FIBRE FOOD ' ' There's no wastesweet to the bone. 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