WEDNESDAY, AUG. 12
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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-
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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.
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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
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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.
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10:35.. .Eureka ,..5:05
11:10.. Cathlamet ..4:25
11:30. Skamokawa .3:55
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12:18.. .Pillar Rock.. .3:30
12:30... Altoona ...3:10
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