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9 J TIIK M01LNINGAST0RIAN, ASTOMA, OIIEGOK. FRIDAY, OCTOBER M, 1908, if ; ; ; , ; : ' Established 1873. ' ' '- ' ' x Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year By carrie-, per. month WEEKLY ASTORIAN, By mail, per year, in advance. ,.'...'. $1so Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, a the postoffice at As toria, Oregon, under the act o! Congress of March 3, 1879. Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence or place of business may be made by postal .card or through telephone. Any irregularity in delivery should be immediately reported to the office of publication. . . . .. . TELEPHONE MAIN 661. . THE WEATHER' - Oregon Fair by increasing cloud iness with rain near coast Washington Fair followed by in creasing cloudiness; rain in extreme west portion. , BUSINESS. There are various kinds of busi ness, but those most familiar to the ordinary run of people are of three very distinctive kinds, towit, private business, public business, and graft. The latter phase is of an injective quality and appertains to the other two only as an imposition, secret, false and destructive, because dis honest. The term "covers a multi tude of sins" and is hated and feared everywhere on the ground that it is becoming a standard element m ev ery sphere of business done by the people. It is the first thing , a man looks for in every proposition sub mitted to him; it is so dreaded that it is taken as a matter of course in nearly every relation that arises, or exists, and has become a fixed in gredient in the summary of all en gagements, public and private. The shamefulness of the thing has been lost sight of in its very commonness; but it is still a repellent theory and the nation is arousing itself to the vast task of its expurgation. ' " ' If it shall be eliminated from the public affairs of the people, it may be possible to pass the benefit on to the private concerns by the sheer force of its value in the larger and opener field of business; at all events there is a rapidity expanding sense of righteous antagonism afoot against it and the sentiment and effort will not down until there are tangible re sults apparent everywhere. 'V ! Astoria is not preening herself on the. score of her freedom from the evil; she knows pretty well what she has permitted in this line," 'publicly and privately through the years that have gone, but her veryf conscious ness will serve to forward her reme dial work in this fine and, with every ' other community in the State, ' she will gradually cleanse her skirts, pol itically and commercially, until she will, in due course, be able to make report of her emancipation, at least in part. The day is at hand and the people are ready for the work: They are intolerant of the evil now, and every champion, and promise, of re form along this line, that bears the sterling impress of honesty and con fidence, will be accented and bolster ed and wrought with, earnestly and successfully, at her polls" and in her markets, V JAPAN'S SINCERITY. " .... v i.; . x -v v The Empire of the Rising Sun, from its imperial head to its lowest coolie, has given the world a lesson in the superb art and grace of nation al hospitality in its' reception of the American war fleet. The sum of Jap an's good will has been manifested as no other nation ever manifested such spirit before, no matter the cause nor the guest. .She challenges mankind to do a . more stupendous deed of , ciyicj friendliness and her challenge must remain unmet for many a long day. Even the wonder ful license of generosity of the Eng lish colonials in the Australias is transcended by this enlightened .Asia atic group of friends, and no more can be said of the expression than that. There are those who would doubt the sincerity , of this demonstration: But we insist that such a doubt is untenable. . Somewhere in the vast program there would have appeared the sign of falsity, the note of de ceit, the revelation of duplicity j, no such scheme could , have been wrought to fulfilment . so perfectly, so spontaneously, had it been charg ed with anything save the frankest and freest of sentiment; the very loy alty of the Japanese to their own .$7.00 .60 Emperor and . country must have been responsible for the signal of guile had a fraction existed; and the honor America demands that all such sentiment be expunged from our con ception of the tenders made. We. can do no less thac match the splendid spirit they have shown, and doing this we invoke the continuance of the highest principle we may attri- hute to them in the case and lay a predicate for the preservation of the bonds that unite the countries indis solubly. "OF SUCH IS HE KINGDOM." While we are at it, we may as well say a word of Astoria's babies We are not given to bragging on things Astorian as a rule, because the best she has; to offer usually speaks so plainly that our- interven tion is superfluous; but with the ba bies it is quite- different; they can not speak for themselves, and their real champion? are ordinarily restric ted to the' family they adorn. or the immediate neighborhood ' they inha bit, and they are therefore denied the proper haralding. ' In a general way, we venture the declaration that no city of 15,000 peo ple in this land can show a finer ar ray of babies, for health, sturdiness, physical beauty, color, form, disposi tion, and promise than dwell in the municipal territory between Smith's Point and Tongue Point on this pen insula,' nor' more of them. Naturally we cherish this idea, for it embodies the crux of our future. You cannot have citizens, without plenty of babies and our' embryotic supply is" always' normal in quantity and quality. We have the homes and schools and agencies for their equip ment and culture and the people who appreciate them enough to raise them to the proper standards; all of which is comforting to a wide sense. What immigration may fail to do for us in expanding our population, we can do for ourselves and always maintain the ratios of development from within our own sphere. Nor is there any surfeit of kinds: we have all variations, each cemplete in its measure of beauty and strength and alround allurement; there is not a single ugly tot in the collection; this is Astoria's strong point and makes for the justification we enjoyin writ ing oi them. To all doubters, (and there will be many,' of. course) we simply say: A four mile tramp be tween the points named, in this city, will convince you of the utter truth of these statements, unless you are a grump, in which case you cannot escape" entire conviction, willy nilly. , GOMPERS REBUKED. "The vote of organized labor, as a body, will not, should not and can not be delivered to any party or by any man or set of men." This is the declaration of Norman E. McPhail, president of the Typographical Uni on ,in a letter to Willis L. Moore, chref of the United States Weather Bureau. Thus another voice is added to the ising protest ;of union; labor against the attempt of Mr. Gompers to 'deliver" the vote of free Ameri can citizens. - , ; President McPhail's letter is as follows: .. , ' , : ; ' "Dear Mr. , Moore Your letter of September 22 has just been received and read by me, as I have to-day re turned from a tour of some of our COFFEE 'i ,-vr; The, w o r l dj is f u 1 1 of anonymous coffee : 4 'Java and'Moclia," Who returns your money if you don't like 'em ? Your (rortr r-rurnt four morjr I m 4n1 K& Schilling Vr !t, bias New England, cities for our organi sation, "In reply to the question you ask me I will state that in my opinion the vote of organized labor in this country as a body will not and can not be delivered to any one party by any one man or set of men. To al low such a' thing would be suicida to the labor movement of the coun try. "Meracbers , of labor .unions, as citizens, have the right and should carefully consider the platforms 'and promises of the different political parties, and should vote as they be lieve the broadest and best interests of our country lie. "There can be nonobjection to this from any source, and it Is something which every citizen should do! To claim that any man or set of men, as has been blazoned forth in the news papers, will deliver , the vote of or ganized labor to; any party Is ab surd as ' it is an impossibility. Sin cerely yours, ' "NORMAN E. Mc- PHAIL." NEWS OF CHEER. The people of the upper coast country are glad of the news that comes up out of Coos as to the safe ty of R. D. Hume and his party from the dangers that beset them on their recent cruise. Especially, of course, as to Mr. Hume. He is one of the energetic, capable, enforcing spirits of this Northwest of ours, and the moments of anxiety, when the wites were silent as to the outcome Of his voyage, were very real and very gen eral throughout Oregon and Wash ington. "All's well that ends well," however, and the fishing and timber interests of this section are still in possession of his intelligent and trained interest. , . DID SHE SUICIDE. Tragic Death Of A Nine Year Old , Girl In New York, NEW YORK, Oct 22.-Reciting over and over to herself the little verse which she was to have spoken before her class in school today and clutching in her . hands; a five cent piece, the last coin of her mother's little store, with which she was to buy milk for her baby-brother, Ma rion Meade, 9 years old, ran in front of a trolley car last night ancf was crushed to death. No one knows just how the acci dent happened but when a policeman called for volunteers and a hundred men put their shoulders to the car and turned it over on the side there was' no life left in the mangled little one underneath the trucks. The nick el was still clutched in the little dead hand. ' T f i :f 'h ' Angry men and women made a demonstration against the niotorman of the car, but he was rescued by. the police and locked up on a charge of homicide. ' . . SHORT ON WATER. i New. York State Up Against A Start ling Condition Of Affairs. NEW YORK, Oct. 22.-From'all parts of the state come complaints of water shortage. So serious is the situation in many lections that ex treme measures will soon be needed to prevent actual distress In vari osu places " dairymen are ' compelled to drive their cows for miles to ob-f tain water and in others if "iffc'elng carried for miles to supply domes tic wants. In the Hudson and Walk hill valleys and in the Catskill moun tains the shortage is serious. Wells and springs have gone dry and small streams which in the past have been sufficient" to supply localities through which they flow are now waterless for the first time in years. At High land Falls adjoining the We6t Point Military reservation", s the situation has become so serious that the gov ernment has ' permitted the tapping of the West Point water mains and the town is now being supplied from that source. ' NEW YORK TO CHINA. ' NE W YORK,:. -Oct. 22.-The Chi nese government selected W. A. Grant of New York to take charge of the new engraving plant , which is to be established in Pekin for the purpose of printing the bank notes that in the past have been turned out in foreign countries. The plant, it is expected, will be completed next year.. . A commission was sent to America some time ago and an in vestigation of the American system of fine engravng and printing was made. The commission among its recommendations adyised that Mr. Grant be selected to take charge of the Chinese plant. He acccnteJ the offer and will sail for China from San Francisco November 11. OPBAKINCi iW. rH"..-, ..y.v. in ' n li Mi '" - r f L I SAL1S r w U iri---rrT Wtl' j Mr If . v.i. y rJ"l 'ill' V. ? i- I I . :' r I - I ) i - ' ' V , l. "- From the Philadelphia Prisa. TRUE PROPHETS AND FALSE. HOW TO TEST THEM. "I will not deny that there may be pMuhett lo-drfjr.'tmt the trouble It t tell the true prophets from the false oiivs. The Blblw m; tluit false prophet! will rise. It tells us how to distinguish the fulsc from the true. It sajlt By their fruits ye shall know them.' Wllllmu J. Bryan's Spch tt B1Uf more, Jau. 20, 1900. ; ; r BRYAN PROPHECIES. "TAEUT WILL CEUSU THE FA EMU a." . 1803, rittm Trnt: "Thus In every State, so far so these statistics have been collected, the pro portion of home-owning fanners Is de creasing ami that of tenant farmers In creasing. This menus but one thing: It mesns a laud of landlords and tenants, and, backed by the history of every nation that has gone down, I say to you that no people can continue a free people under a free government when the great majority of Its citizens are tenants of a small minority." William J, Bryan ; speech on the protective tar iff In the National louse of Represen tatives, March W, 1892. . , "GOLD BTATOAKD WILL DESTROY EOMES." 1806, Pre Colaaset 1 1. fl s reply that,' Jt i protection ), has lain Its tbousnndH, the gold standard has slain Its term of thousunds." William 3. Bryan ;s speech" at Demo cratic National Convention, July, 1800. -: The Democratic party has begun a war of extermination against the gold standard. We ask no quarter j we give no Quarter. We shall prosecute our warfare until there Is not an American citizen who dares to advocate the gold standard. Toa ask why? We reply bat the gold standard is a conspiracy against the human race, and that we should ho more join In It than we would an army to destroy our homes and to destroy our families." William J. JJry an; speech at Albany, N. Y., August, im ... , ,. , "ITO KOBE FOUBTH Off JULY." I0OO, Imperiallaral The flpht this year will be to carry out the sentiment of that song we have so often repeated: 'My .Country, 'tis of Thee.' If we loe,: our children and Our children's children will not suc ceed to the snlrlt of that sone. and cel ebrations of the Fourth of July will pass away, for the spirit of Empire will be upon us." William J. Bryan ; speech to the Bryan Home Guards, Lincoln, Neb., July, 1900. . : . , "ROOSEVELT THE i 1004, Amtl-RoiMvelt. "I would rather gflo down to eternal oblivion . than be Instrumental In the election of Roosevelt."- William j J. Bryan, Oct. 17, 1904, while touring In dlana. ' The surrender of the present Presi dent (Roosevelt) to corporate influ ences furnishes an excellent proof of the wisdom of Judge Parker In making the statement he has. But President Roosevelt stunds for militarism. , The present occupant ', of the White House (Roosevelt) represeuts in an ag gravated form the warlike spirit, as contrasted with the pacific policy that has heretofore characterized ourr na tion." WIIHam J. Bryan, In a speech a( Springfield, Mo., gept. 1, 1904, where he accused President Roosevelt of sur rendering to the corporations and hold ing "bloody, brutal and barbarous" sen timents. 'GOVERNMENT MUST lOOO, GoYernnient Ownership of , "I have already reached the conclu sion that Ttitlronds, partake so much of the nature of a monopoly that they murt ultimately become public property, and be managed by public officials in the Interest of the whole community. William J. nryan j Home-coming speech at New York City, August, 1900. OF ISSUED. TUB ANSWERS, Tb tuwM U 108. The answer Is found la the prevail lng good prlmi for grain, corn, hofs, cattle, bay . anil 4 all the products of i the i f arow 4 'together with -the fact thiit since4 the ; date id Can didate Bryan's - "crushing" speech, W(wtern farm lands have doubled. Id value, and housands of "Umant" farm ers of that date have become prosper ous home-owners, tilling tbelr own laud In peace, Impplneta and plenty., Under the National Irrigation Act, and the Republican conservation movement, the Wont Is soon to be the Intense agricul tural and horticultural producing are ef the United States. ''' The Atiwti la' 1908. rt ;'' The gold standard has "slain" no one, ' nor did It write .the "future In blood," nor did It destroy our homes nor,-foreclose the farm mort gage, nor did It close the dis trict school; on the contrary, It has proved the sound snd solid foundation of widespread prosperity, leading to In dividual progress Snd happiness, aided In paying, off the farm mortgage and expanding the country's educational fa cilities, .. u: .('i , '-,'!.''' . ' It has brought such prosperity to our country as was never known before. Americans are the happiest and most prosperous people on earth to-day. The Aaawer Im 1008, Answer this for yourself. Do yon know of any spot In the United States where" the spirit of 1770 Is dead and forgotten and the Fourth of July meaningless date on the calendar? On the other hand the humblest cltl sen Is growing prouder of his American citizenship and the spirit of 1770 to permeating the entire body politic, Rpiarr- bv wAn : " , . j , . U .... i -- w' The Amwm la ltOi. President Roosevelt, Instead of rep resenting the "spirit of war," stands before the world the greatest ex emplar of International peace! In bis generation History will ' In " full season award him the titles he has justly won, and the greatest" of these will be "The Peacemaker," In spite of Candidate Bryan's assault upon him In 1904. Under President Roo relt's policies the United States has taken its place In the front rtfuk of world powers. Taft Is committed to continuing these policies i OWtf RAILWAYS."- The Anarer la 1008, The broad meaning of Candidate Bryan's remarks on this -subject Is that railway regulation by statute law Is Impossible,, and that"gov ernment, ownership" Is the only remedy for transportation abuses The enactment of the Federal Rate Law has totally disproved the claims .of Candidate Bryan aud vividly displayed his unsound reasoning on great public Questions. SHE JUMPED ANYWAY. Policeman Catches Woman In His Arms From Threa Story Jump, i CHICAGO,. Oct. 22.-Mri. Annie ; Kline was snved from probably death yesterday when she Jumped from a third story of her residence which ( was a tire, by policeman Michael Egnn, who caught her in his nrmn, aftcf lie had shouted to her not to ' , Jump. . ' ; 1 ."J . The cnue of the fire I not known, It spread so rapidly that whih Mrs. Klii!" w jgathHng i;;s some oi her personal belonging oho found es cape cut off, . " " The policeman was st.inding almost directly under Mr, Kline mid as the plunged tihe fell head foremost lie caught her in his nnui Doth fell to the ground and . were unconscious when spectator ran to their asui lance. Kgnii'i helmet was broken,' but Slide from being itunricd, he was not injured, fr. Kline nuffercd bru es, but was not seriously hurt The fire cntttcd damage of $SX. BIG GIN BURNS. EVERGREEN.; Ky Oct. 21 -The big cotton ginnery of B. F. Smith, five miles east of Evergreen was de stroyed by. fire yesterday. jten Xwento e burnedV of Jncn- seven .bale of cotton were There I every Indication iLLIIIiy SALE f Special Sale of PATTERN HATS At the La Mode 682 Commercial St, AMUSEMENTS.' ..Astoria Theatre.. Astoria Theatre '" ONE NIGHT ' SUNDAY Oct 25 WILLIE DUN LAY ..:,. in ." george m. cohan's Brilliant Comedy Hit With Music ii. The iioneymooners Elaborate Production Cohan Songs, Cohart Boys, Cohan Girls, Cohan Noise. The Cohan Songs Hits "I'm a Popular Man," "Make a Lot of Noise," "Kid Days," . In a "One- y Night Stand," "Nothing New Be-,r ; neath the Sun," . "The Mysterlouf Maid," '"Don't Go In the Water, Daughter," "San Francisco I My Home," "An Old Fashioned Walk." The Incomparable Company, and , the Bisque Baby Ballet, i- Prlces-HEvenings, 25c to fl.50. Ma , r v- . tmees, 25c to $1.00. Mail orders fillld How. THEGRAND THEATRE Commercial and Ninth Street TONIGHT FOR HIS SISTER'S SAKE HALLO, HALLOO GRINDER ILL-REWARDED HONESTY TOM REMOVES : ' ' SONG "Too Late (Rosey) ' VIEWS OF ' ' S TRIP THROUGH HAWAII This Theatre is equipped with the latest and most improved electri cal Machines. Don't fail to sec these pictures. ENTIRE CHANGE OF PROGRAM MONDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY ADMISSION, 10c Children. Sc