THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1908.
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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.
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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.
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VANDERBILT CUP RACE.
The American Automobile Club Meet
Will Have Many Foreign Cars.
!EW YORK, July 23.-The racing
board of the American Automobile
Club held a meeting yesterday and
NEW YORK, July 23,-PIatinum
which sold at $-40 an ounce a year
ago, has taken a big decline and yes
terday, was quoted at just half as
much, $20 an ounce. The metal is
extensively used by jewelers as the
backing for diamonds in brooches
and other ornaments. Dentists and
manufacturers of electric photogra
phic supplies also are large consum
ers of platinum. The price of plati
num doubled between 1905 and 1907
and is now down to the 1905 price. It
sold as low as $8 to $10 an'ounce 15
years ago.
Dealers in speaking of the present
price of the metal attribute the de
cline to the business depression and
consequent falling off in demand.
Nearly all platinum comes from the
Ural mountains and the government
of Russia keeps close control of the
mines. Small (uinntities of the met
al are 'obtained in South American
countries also.
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