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THE MORNING A3T0RIAN, ASTORIA. OREGON.
WEDNESDAY, (SEPT. 2
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THE WEATHER
Oregon, Washington and Idaho-
Wednesday fair, cooler, except, near
coast
PLAYING "BLACK HAND."
Some poor fool is playing the dan
gerous "black-hand" game in this city
and the sooner some of our "sleuths"
run him down and head him out of
Astoria, the better for him; he is not
hurting the place, nor its people, the
least little bit; but he is laying himself
liable to a first-class case of man(?)
handling if he gets in the way of
some of his victims, or rather pre
sumptive victims. We do not be
lieve the police have very far to go
for the man, though the proof essen
tial in a case of the kind may be the
stall that will hold the game a bit
longer. He is sure to give himself
away sooner or later; just as he did
a couple of years ago, and when he
does, the.re are two refuges up in Sa
lem, either of which will fit his case
to a dot What he needs most is
seven years of good, hard, daily la
bor, uncompensated, and enforced to
the letter and the limit.
There are plenty of people in As
toria who are quietly watching him
and one or two more of his freaks
will put him where he will find letter-writing
an onerous task rather
than a flippant and vain-glorious road
to sudden wealth. We may be mis
taken in the man, but we do not be
lieve it
SEA-WALL MANIPULATION.
As a principle of municipal devel
opment a sea-wall here is alright, and
the Morning Astorian is an ardent
friend and exponent f the project,
first and last; but always, upon the
primal theory that the scheme is framed-up
to meet every exigency of
fault, failure, defeat, dereliction and
mis-handling. We want no rash and
half-baked propositions merged into
a dictum that cannot be broached un
der the appelate codes of the State;
beyond record the righting of error
or wrong, and immune from the in
tervention of some power to amend
it when the time for amendment
comes; we want no commissions dic
tated by people at interest, to be vo
ted upon 'willy nilly' and haphazard-!
ly, nor are 'we going to have these
things if a little fore-thought and time
ly warning can avert them.
In the first place, there has been al
together too much secrecy maintained
in the framing of this new proposi
tion; press nor people have not had
proper access to, nor familiarity with,
the processes, reasons, arguments and
conclusions that have prevailed in the
making of this grave and significant
attempt at framing costly charter law;
the matter seems to have been dealt
with in a hypothetical way altogether,
without engineering advice or ascer
tainments, without surveys or sound
ings on the line of improvement, with
out reference to the establishment of
fixed, formal and legitimate munici
pal grades, nor any of the fundamen
tal pre-requisites attaching to an en
ormous scheme of the sort; and until
it is simplified, made public and un
derstandable in all its bearings on
the popular purse, patience, and
knowledge there will be those, and
plenty of them, who will fight it to
the last ditch.
It is too fine a proposition to be de
spatched in privacy and with ill-advised
precipitancy, and upon merely
supposititious estimates of depths, al
ignments, bearings and grades; there
is vastly too much at stake for things
to proceed as they are at present; and
we counsel those in charge to get
nearer the people and make things
more manifest before they seek to
foist anything unacceptable on the
public, trusting to the partisan impul
ses of the electoral season to rush
them to successful finality.
handed in making the suggestion; but
in the light of things at this moment,
it believes that Astoria needs a gen
uine businessmen's administration.
without regard to politics at any point
in the game; and it should be started
in a mass-convention of citizens who
are unified upon a non-partisan,
wholesome, clean and acceptable pre
dicate of Astoria first; the Taxpayer
next; the politician last, or not at all!.
The city has simply got to look to
a diminution of its public obligations;
it has done nothing to mitigate them
nor wipe them out; a policy that
may not be neglected too long; with
out involving extraordinary sacrifice
in the long-run; there must be a ces
sation of the ever-accumulating pub
lic costs and something done to con
serve the burdens in existance. it
takes business men to do these things;
men unhampered by political debts
while dealing with finances and other
hard factors; officers without respon
sibility save to the city as a whole
and free to do their best for the com
munity, unchecked by the desires or
plans of boss or friend or agent.
There should be no trouble at all
to name a strong first-class, safe and
dependable ticket this winter of men
trained to business and to whom pol
itical honors are cheap compared with
the real success and credit of duty
well and successfully done. We
could name a half hundred square
clean, capable, appreciated citizens
from whom to select a corps of m-,
nicipal officers for the new term, and
if we are ever in the humor, we'll do
it and stand pat afterward, too.
try arc of inestimable value but not
utilized its they would be if improved
upon the plan suggested, embodying;
the work as part of the fixed policy
of the government, upon definite
plans, with annuul appropriations ad
equate to the work, with the work
continuous and embracing a policy
but no special project.
There is no necessary hostility be
tween rail hnd river. Europe, with
its wise policy on the subject of wa
terway improvement, finds - the one
means of transportation complement
ing and supplementing the other-Mlie
river carrying the heavier articles, as
it would carry the lumber for the
American lumberman and avoid th
present prospective shortage avoid
ing congestions when the necessary
grain movement begins and inevitab
ly avoiding all other congestions of
the railways which are, admittedly
inadequate in their facilities for car
rying the freight offerings of the
country. The true remedy and the
enduring remedy for, freight conges
tions is in the improvement of the
waterways on the plan suggested by
the National Rivers and Harbors
Congress.
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The usual co& prices and less
on our immense stock of
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A Traveling Man's Experience.
"I must tell you my experience on
an east bound O. R. & N. R. R. train
from Pendleton to Le Grande, Ore.,"
writes Sam A. Garber, a well known
traveling man. "I was in the smok
ing department with some other trav
eling men when one of them went out
into the coach and came back and
said, 'There is a woman sick unto
death in thenar.' I at once got up
and went out, found her very ill with
cramp colic, her hands and arms were
drawn up so you could not straight
en them, and with a death like look-
on her face. Two or three ladies were
working with her and giving herj
whiskey. I went to my suitcase and
got my bottle of Chamberlain's Colic.
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy (I
never travel without it), ran to the
water-tank, put a double dose of the
medicine in the glass, poured some
water into it and stirred it with a
pencil; then I had quite a time to get
the ladies to let me give it to her, but
t siim-erlpH I rnnlil at once see the
l. ... i u . : it. - . .
effect and I worked with her, rubbing ! uul uy luc l,B,e im r'n ,mo "
her hands, and. in 20 minutes I Rave! Grande she was all right, and 1 re-
her another dose. By this time wejeeived the thanks ol every passenger
were almost into Le Grande, where I ! in the car." For sale by Frank Uart
was to leave the train. I cave the ' and leading druggists.
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ADMINISTRATION.
The Astorian may be a bit fore-
THE COMING SHORTAGE.
The American Lumberman states
that it is in receipt of many letters
from mill points North and South
which indicate that on the beginning
of the grain movement "there would
be very serious difficulty in securing
sufficient cars to handle the unusual
ly heavy lumber movement expected
during the Fall and Winter months"
To add to the demand for cars for
1he grain movement, the latest re
port of the Car Efficiency Committee
of the American Railway Association
states that reports from all railway
shops in the country show that for
two weeks preceding August 4 the
number of cars in bad order had in
creased 2.7 per cent in excess of five
per cent per month.
' The movement of grain is a move
ment which cannot be avoided. It is
not only inevitable but an absolute
necessity. While the statement is in
the nature of a self evident proposi
tion it is made for the purpose of cal-1
ling attention to the fact that because
of lack of railway transportation facil
ities an admitted lack even by rail
way managers not only is the ab
solutely necessary grain movement
retarded, but all other movements of
articles of trade and commerce are
equally impeded, with lumber move
ments especially retarded this year.
The importance of that retardation
cannot be overestimated in this sea
son when all building trade journals
show a remarkable increase in the
number of building permits issued,
and in the value of the buildings.
Recurring car shortages are bur
dens exceedingly oppressive. They are
the cause of enormous annual losses
to all sections, to all branches of trade
and commerce and they bear with
equal oppressiveness on builder, on
merchant and mechanic. Yet the
remedy is easily found. In the im
provement of the waterways of the
United States on the plan advocated
by the National Rivers and Harbors
Congress, the remedy would be
found. The waterways of the conn-
Religion For the
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J By the Rv. Dr. CHARLES t. AKEO of Nw York.
HE question of the decreasing membership and waning
influence of religion the churches is not a denomi
national question. It is not a national question. It is
a question as wide as Christianity itself. Conditions
in America are, broadly speaking, tho same as in Eng
land and in England as in tho rest of Europe. I can
see the difference in this country since I first visited the United States
fifteen years ago.
THE DANGER IS NOT FROM DIRECT ATTACK ON RELIGION.
THIS DENIAL OF BELIEF THAT IS, ATHEISM HAS SPENT ITS
FORCE. WHAT THE CHURCHES HAVE TO FEAR 13 A MORE IN
SIDIOUS DANGER INDIFFERENCE.
e
The man in the street says, "The church is a back number." Tie
feels that he can do without it If you ask him whether he believes
in God, in the existence of an infinite power superior to man, the
chances are that he will say "Yes." But questions of dogma, distinc
tions of creed, do not interest him, and he refuses to concern himself
about them. lie has made up his mind that he can get along without
religion that is, religion as it has been expounded to him. But this
DOES NOT MEAN NECESSARILY THAT HE IS IRRE
LIGIOUS. It seems to me that this indifference is more pronounced in America
than in England, just as orthodoxy is more strictly defined and more
unyielding over here. And where there is indifference to the church
I can form no other conclusion than that the church itself is to blame.
Yet the need of religion never has been greater in any age or country
than in this country and in the day we live in. Churches exist and
preachers are maintained to remind men and nations of the eternal
laws they must obey and the eternal love in which they may rest. And
in the United States they may yet be needed as the mainstay of social
order.
EITHER THE CHURCHES HAVE GOT TO LIVE UP TO THE
TA8K OF KEEPING THE 80UL OF THE NATION ALIVE OR THEV
WILL PERISH.
Statistics gathered by Dr. Josiah Strpng show that the gain of ftie
churches in membership in proportion to the gain in population is
steadily and rapidly falling off. In the past twenty years it is less than
half what it was in the preceding twenty. The trouble is that TOO
MUCH OF OUR RELIGION, BOTH AS IT IS PREACHED
AND AS IT IS PRACTICED, LACKS LIFE. The attitude of a
vast number of persons toward it is like that of the New York banker
who said to a certain preacher at the conclusion of his sernion :' "This
is the first time I ever knew that religion had anything to do with
living. I thought it had to do only with dying and going to hell."
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ASTORIA, . . . OREGON
Sept. Official TideTables
Compiled by the U.S. Government for
Astoria and Vicinity.
8EPTEMBER, 1908.
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SEPTEMBER, 1908.
Low Water.
Data.
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Thursday 8
Friday 4j
Saturday 5
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Saturday 12
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4:11 0.0 4:32 3.4
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6:45 -0.5 7:10 1.8
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2:31 0.8 2:62 8.9
3:35 0.8 4:03 3.6
4:27 0.6 4:68 8.1
6:12 0.6 6:42 2.7
6:51 0.6 6:20 2.9
6:22 0.8 6:47 1.1
6:50 1.0 7:13 1.4
7:17 1.2 7:43 1.1
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