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THE MORNING ASTOEIAN ASTORIA. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7 - . ' '- " 1 n . '".,'-" ' r . . Established 1873. , s f Published Daily Except Monday by' THE J. S. k DELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ' By mail, per year .... ...-....$7.00 By carrie-, per month '. 60 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance i $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. V 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. ' '"' ' ' '' : " :.-'''. ; : :' ' '. ? i -- " urn ? TELEPHONE MAIN Cl. the same period, in fact since 1846, United States the distance from New Great Britain has had q free trade York to St. Louis is 1.066 miles, and THE WEATHER Oregon-Fatr, moderate tempera ture. Washington Showers west, fair in east portion. THE HEARST HAMMER. . Hearst and his little political ham mer are out for blood and bruises. It does not make any difference where the thing falls, with Mr. Hearst; he is ensconced in an independent field and can smash right and left without any rebound to his own immaculate hide or danger to his own dirty fin gers. It is alright just at the moment, for him; but the day of reckoning is sure to dawn; it always does for the professional hammerer; and his wea pon of personal abuse and damage will find its retroactive task in the sweet bye and bye. "Tis a long lane that hath no turn!" THAT FORTY-CENT RATE. Along with all men in the North west we are waiting with eager hope to see the expansion of the lumber trade after the 15th of this month, when the 40 cent rate that has been won by the lumbermen goes into effect on the N. P. there are hundreds of mills ready to respond to the call. If there is any department of com merce that needs a hunch it is that of lumber; it has been paralyzed long enough, and any access will be hailed with joy all over the field. The fight has been a long one and hotly contes ted, and its subsidence, and the re sumption of traffic will come like a tonic. to the congested conditions that , have supervened. Even little old Astoria gets in jon the new deal, in a measure, and she can stand all that may come to her by way of milling and hauling and logging. WAR THREATENS EUROPE. It is about time another war fell to the European countries; they have been peaceful about as long as they can stand for that equitable pose, and there are the makings of a real fine scrap in the situation that is being worked up over there. With Turkey in an internal tumult, the Austrian provinces threatened with annexation by Servia, the Bulgarians rampant with ardent fury of revenge and am bitious, lust of territory, there is an easy opening for the fire-brand and plenty of inflamable material, while the supremacy of Austria's claims in the premises is too notable to be ig nored even by the concert of powers that has declared itself responsible for the maintenance of peace.i Of course it will all be done in es sentially diplomatic form and the mo tive and master-hand will be cleverly veiled, while the civilized world makes its customary exclamations of polite horror and simultaneously get in on the ground-floor in the matter of war supplies'of all sorts. There's a comet due, too!. OUR NEW ELECTRIC. , It really begins to look as if As toria and Clatsop were to have the advantage of an electric system through the city and over the plains and valleys of the country; the hope it inspires is not the least of its man ifold popular services. We need some such assurance to arouse this whole communty, to give it something to think of and work to and calculate on, and to direct our latent energies to the subsidiary elements of trade COFFEE A middling steak and first-rate coffee are better than middling: coffee and first-rate steak. Con sider the cost. Tear frocar rdurni your bsmf II TM int fc Jcbilliuf'l Belt; piy bin. tariff, During these years a home markethas ben built up in the Uni ted States with sufficient purchasing power to consume 90 per cent, and more of our manufactures and farm products."- In the same period Great Britain has striven to become the workshop of the world, and has suc ceeded in becoming the dumping ground for the products of other na tions. ? ' Let us see now what has been the result of these two policies on the railroads of these two countries, as affected by the wages of the employ ees and the freight rates. The testi mony is that of Mr. B. F. Yoakum, one of the leading railroad men of this country, In a recent interview, he made the astounding declaration that four thousand million dollars would be added to American freight bills if the shippers of this country were com pelled to pay the same rate as the English shippers pay while at the same time the average .wages paid to American railroad employees are more than double that paid to those of the same rates of labor in Great Britain. , To be more specific, Mr. Yoakum the rate, per ton, is $4.00, or 38 cents per mile. In Great Britain $1.00 pays for moving one ton of freight 43 milesj'in the United States, $1.00 pay for moving one ton of freight 13; miles. During 1907 the freight reve nue of the United States was $1,826, 000.000. If the United States $1,826,000,000. If the United States for that period had paid the English rate for freight, the cost .would have been four billion more than this; or, to be exact; $5,713,000,000. , Shall we continue to operate farms and factories under a protective tar iff, or shall we let down the bars and resort to the fiscal policy of Great Britain? and traffic and investment that run with such organic movements as rail road building. We hope at the smoker tomorrow evening the business men of this city may come to such complete and con finatory understanding with Mr. For- sythe and his people, that there shall shows that the average wages paid to be no possible failure of the enter- the railroad employees in Great Brit prise started by Mr. Evans. It will ain are $303 per year, while the freight be an excellent opportunity for the rate " Great Britain is $2.34 per ton general interchange of ideas and the per mile. As compared with this, formulation of impulses to this end; the average wages of the railroad and the end surely justifies the most employees of the United States are ardent attempt to close the matter $642 per year, while the freight rate soundly and affirmatively. There is is 75 cents per ton per mile. In Great s&mething practical in this venture, Britain firemen are paid $300 per year; and that it will be an immense success ' the United States, $1,155 per, year.i later on goes almost without saying, or more than four times as much. Once underway, there is nothing to In Great Britain, engine drivers are do but make it a success.. ;paid $487 per year, while in the Uni- ited States they are paid $1,350 per SIGNIFICANT CONTRAST. year. In the United States, section hands are paid $423 per year, which For nearly fifty years under Repub- $108 more than conductors arc Fifty Years Blacksmith. Samuel R. Worley of Ilixburg, Va., nas Been snocing horses tor more than 50 years. 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For sale by Frank benefits of a protective tariff, excep- mar country. j jIart onj iea(iing druggists. ting during the period frnm to. From Manchester to London the 10O7 I..- .U. T?.. T.'4 u:i I j:.. nim ...... . ,. i, wutu me iduc iianii-1 uiMdncc is v nines aim tne rate, per Gorman law was in operation. During ton, $4.21, or $1.86 pre mile. In the Subscribe to The Morning Astorian, 60 cents per month by carrier. "Fbrsheim Foot Notes" "Th Our New Fall Styles have arrived They represent "A fit for every foot". "A style for any taste lid is off" ft I- ; , in ii ' minT " I .'V i' i& -it. I V '-V : J : , . r' CHAS.'iV. BROWN The Family Shoe Store Man A SUMMER DRINK Unfermentcd Grape Juice absolutely non-alcoholic Concord 5oc quart Catawba: Coc quart Welch's Grape Juice Nips : 10c AMERICAN IMPORTING CO. 589 Commercial Street. f John Fox, Pres. F. L Biahop, Sec. Astoria Savlnrs Bmw, Treat. 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