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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 12 THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. Mr. Roseiibtirg Makes a FREE TRIAL-AN ELECTRIC IRON Denial to Criticisms Saves backs, footsteps, blistered fingers, and facesfuel and tempers. Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year ' By carrie", per month " WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, a the postoffice at As toria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1679, Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence or place of business may be made bypostal .card or through telephone. Any irregularity in delivery should be immediately reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. ,the:weather Oregon and Idaho Fair, moderate temperature. Washington Fair, slightly warmer in west portion exception along the coast. JAPAN'S GOOD WILL. Japan is taking timely steps to heal the sore places created in the Amer ican mind by her bombastic yearn ers after war that was one of the con spicuous results of her late entangle ment with Russia. Every word that comes from the Island Kingdom these days is fraught with friendliness for the United States and the old sense of uneasiness that was so ap parent on both sides of the Pacific a year or more ago, has subsided to a point where each land is looking gladly and willingly to the other for good will and mutual understanding. It is an excellent change of senti ment.. The two countries are bound to have much in common through the years to come, commercially and dip lomatically, and if a happy predicate can be established for the interchange of these' large and commanding af fairs, it' were well to lay it now and in such fashion that' its disruption shall be difficult and undesired by the peoples at interest. Every friendly national tie is another barrier againsf th senseless commercial wars that spring all too quickly and disastrous ly in these days of "bargain-counter" politics and montetary rule. ALL FOR GOOD ROADS. Up in Portland yesterday there were assembled something over a hundred very intelligent gentlemen from all over the State of Oregon, foregathered in the interest of good roads throughout the State; and the session ought to yield conspicuous and gratifying results. There is no more imperative scheme of public expansion and improvement than this of roads, and no roads in the North west more amenable to consideration and treatment than the Oregon roads with Clatsop's fairly in the lead We are doing much year by year in this behalf, but if we can advance our system of handling and preparation and maintenance, and make it con form to the best in other localities, we shall have taken a long step in one of the most commanding elements of our inter-communication policies, the cheapest methods of neighborly touch and business and general intercourse known to man, and one which he will never abandon, whatever the progress made in rail, water and air transpor tation. A The Portland convention should be prolific of general good considering the number and quality of the repre sentatives who have gone there to scan the situation and further the cause of really good roads in Oregon. ASTORIA'S IMMUNITY. We repeat that Astoria, consider ing her structural conditions, the in timacy of range and exposure throughout her commercial area, is wonderfully immune from fire and that her rates are oppressively high , and intolerably burdensome. The Dunbar fire of Monday night is an object lesson as to the practical safety of the city so far as her train ed lire-fighters can sponsor and main tain it, and that is among the chief est of her exemptions. This fire broke out in the very core of her congested commercial field, in the very center of a block, surrounded on all sides by wooden walls, dry as tinder and as amenable to ignition as the material at the seat of the trouble, difficult of access, through narrow spaces, over gangways and through close alleys and avenues; yet the firemen went to the heart of the situation and stayed there, working expertly and success- THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. .$7.00 .60 .$1.50 fully to the finish and saving the city from grave loss. The demonstration is flatly in fa vor of an abated rate all over the city and there should be no let-up until it is secured. Nor is Astoria the only place where such consideration is due; there is not a town in the North west that is not amenable to a sharp abatement of its insurance rates and the imposition is so glaring that the marvel is that there is not a broad and unified campaign against it in the press and commercial agencies all over the country. It would seem that in spite of th? fine work done by President Roose velt toward the regulation of the trusts their encroachments are be coming deeper and more significantly oppressive all the time, and it is up' to the people to take their cue from him, and prosecute the fight to a level and standing that are accept able. The people do not care who they pay rational pries to for their public utilities; but it is the irrational" and prohibitive tariffs of the country that are beginning to appal them, finally. KEEP TAB ON MOUTHERS. Frank Hitchcock, the supreme manager of the Republican presiden tial campaign has inaugurated a clev er scheme to rate and register the effectiveness of the orators who are to be sent out over the land in be half of Mr. Taft and keep sharp tab on their efficiency and specific facul ties, to the end that the best may be utilized at points where they are most needed and that thewhole bunch may be tabulated and disposed wisely and effectually. The idea is suggestive of a univer sal proposition to keep close tab on all the mouthers, especially in the smaller and local sense of the brag garts and blow-hards who infest ev ery community in the land to the general unahppiness and disfavor and discomfort of those who have to live in touch with them. If every community would set up a board of censors with autocratic power of declaring and publishing these abominable nuisances, it might tend to the wide relief- and peace of those who suffer socially, commer cially, and generally, from their ever lasting yawp. The irresponsible mouther, the man who butts in with his lip and tongue and his half-baked estimates of men and plans and pros pects, is among the worst of all known communal evils. Astoria has him, with a plentitude that is as un fair as it is insufferable. Subscribe for The Morning Astorian. Diarrhoea Cured. "My father has for years been troubled with diarrhoea, and tried ev ery means possible to effect a cure, without avail," writes John H. Zir kle of Philippi, W. Va. He saw Chamberlain's Cholic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy advertised in the Philippi Republican and decided to try it. The result is one bottle cur ed him and he has not suffered with the disease for eighteen months. Be fore taking this remedy he was a con stant sufferer. He is now sound and well, and although sixty years old, can do as much work as a young man. Sold by Frank Hart and leading druggists. CU.-i'iii Nothing decs more for a grocer, one way or the other, than coffee. He must sell poor; (he needn't sell it to you) it is good tHt makes him. Yoor grocer returoi 7 our mow If itm deal Ik Schilling'! Beit; w. pay bio At the meeting of the 'Chamber of Commerce Monday night the follow ing communication from Ed. Rosen berg was presented and read, it be ing a reply to certain criticisms made by J. T. Welch: Returning to this city after a few days absence, my attention was cal led to an article in the Morning As torian of July 29th, giving an address read by J. T. Welch before the Chant "ber of Commerce. In this address the fishery legislation recently enac ted by the vote of the people is strongly condemned and personal abuse heaped upon me as responsible for such legislation. Were it not for the fact that an Astorian paper published this "ad dress," I would not take up the val uable time of the Chamber of Com merce in replying to same, as I feel fully assured that the members of the Chamber, many of whom took an ac tive and leading part in our fishery legislation fight, considered this ad dress as the expressions of an unusu ally erratic mind. But this address having been pub lished, to remain silent now might mislead some of our citizens who gave loyal support to the Bill abolish ing fishwheels and whose future sup port is needed to hold on to what ha been gained. For over one year past; Secretary Lorntsen and myself, acting under in structions from the United Fishermen of the Pacific and the Columbia Riv er Fishermen's Union, have at every step in this legislation consulted as to the legal bearing of same, with at torney John H. Smith. As stated at the mass meeting at the Astoria the atre, the leading cannery men last fall heartily approved the plan of cam paign outlined to abolish the fish wheels and promised financial support when needed. The State Federation of Labor and the Oregon State Grange endorsed our measure. Men of the standing of David Starr Jor dan, Judge Thomas A. McBridc, Stat Senator Wright and many other pub lic spirited citizens throughout the State, gave their approval and, sup port. And the citizens of Astoria gave financial, political and other as sistance. For months members of the citizens committee choscnat the mass meeting, gave willingly part of their valuable time to plan and execute ev ery move in the campaign for sal mon protection. This was no one man's fight. It was a fight of the cit izens of Astoria, aided by lending cit izens of the State, to save our Colum bia River salmon by abolishing fish wheels as far as Oregon jurisdiction ; went. This object has been obtained. By a majority of 26,000 the voters last June decreed that commercial fishing for salmon above the Sandy must cease after August 25th. The best at torneys obtainable have been consul ted and they agre that there is no doubt about the legality of this law. The fishwheels thus will go. It is true the fishwheel owners, who claimed they stood to Io-,e $250,000 by the passage of our measure, placed'be fore the people a trick bill, which practically abolished all fishing in the Columbia, except with fishwheels, traps and seines in certain districts. This trick bill with the aid of misrep resentation and open fraud and as re ported with lavish expenditure of mo ney judiciously placed for the pur pose of fooling the voters, received a majority of 6000, and was likewise declared carried. However, tfye Fed eral courts have held, and their de cisions hold in this matter I am in formed, that fishery laws for the Columbia to be enforcible on gear which continually drifts from the waters of one State into the waters of the other State, must be approved by both States. And 1 am fully confi-" dent that the Legislature of Wash ington will not enact the fishwheel owners' trick bill, especially as under its ternis a great many trapmcn and seiners, the allies of the wheelmen, would be as severely hurt as the gill netters. Also the Legislature of Washington will be shown what fraud upon the people of Oregon was perpetrated to carry the trick bill. . Of course it is very much to be re gretted that the fishwheel '. owners' trick bill likewise passed. Some an noyance to lower river fishermen no doubt will be caused by its passage. But this bill would never have passed if the citizens' committee last April and May had at its disposal funds to more fully cover the State with literature and send us speakers. But outside the Union Fishermen's Co operative Packing Company the nthVf cannery companies when the time to aid came, went back on their promise of support. So the committee did the best it could with the limited funds at its disposal and overwhelm ingly carried bill 332, ( On a par with other misstatements in this "address" is the assertion that 1 ha.ve quit the fight. On the con trary, I continue V' make my home at Astoria. Mr. AVylch is nok in my confidence, but trustworthy men know that vigorous steps are being taken to protect the interests of the fishJr men and of the salmon industry. In conclusion wish to say that con tinued vigilance and effort is neces sary to hold on to what has been gained and to prevent harm to the industry, for there are some men in the salmon industry who arc continu ally scheming to hog it all. I remain, very respectfully, ED. ROSENBERG. A Faithful Friend. " I have used Chamberlain's colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy since it was first introduced to the public in 1872, and have never found one in stance where a cure was not speedily effected by its use. I have been a commercial traveler for eighteen years, and never start out on a trip without this, my faithful friend," says H. S. Nichols of Oakland, Ind. Ter. When a man has used a remedy for thirty-five years he knows its value and is competent to speak of it. For sale by Frank Hart, druggist. What it Best for Indigestion? Mr. A. 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For Sale. Twelve shares Northern Oyster companies stock, one hundred and thirty dollars (130) per share. Apply Imperial Restaurant. 8-9-tf. Subscribe to the Morning Astorian. TRANSPORTATION. Stmr. Chas.R. Spencer Spencer Line PORTLAND-ASTORIA ROUTE Portland: Washington Street D5ck Callender Dock, Astoria Phone Main 8619 ROUND TRIP DAILY Except Thursday and Sunday For Astoria and Way Landings Leaving Portland 7 A. M. Arriving Astoria 1 P. M.j Returning Leave Astoria 2:30 P. M., Arrive Portland 9:45 P. M. FARE $1.00 EACH WAY SUNDAY EXCURSION Astoria and Return Leave Portland 8 P. M. Return 9 P. M. FARE $1.00 ROUND TRIP Weekly Landing and Time Schedule Leave 7:00.. Portland ..9:45 Arrive " 8:30.. .St. Helens... 8:00 9:15... Kalama ...7:05 9:35... Rainier ...6:30 10:10.... Stella ....5:35 10:25.. .Oak Point... 5:20 10:35.. .Eureka ,..5:05 11:10.. Cathlamet ..4:25 11:30. Skamokawa .3:55 12:05.. Brookfield ..3:40 12:18.. .Pillar Rock.. .3:30 12:30... Altoona ...3:10 Arrive 1:10... 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