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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1908)
Tin: mormnc; a.vtouian a stoma, oeegon. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 190a SlstorimiL Established 1373. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J, S. DELUNGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 8y mail, per year .... By carrie-, per month .$7.00 .60 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance........ ..... ..$1.50 Entered as second-clasa matter July 30, 1305, a the postoffict at As toria, Oregon, under the act ol Confess of March 3, 1879. Orders (or the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence cr place of business may be made bypostal .card or through telephone. Any irregularity in delivery khould be immediately reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN eSL ' THE WEATHER Oregon, Washington lain. and Idaho DEBT AND CONFISCATION. The rule of debt, with all its limi tations, applies to the community, in ttact ratio, as it does to the individ- sal Sophistry never changed the bearing and force of a fixed principle ef human action yet, and never will The tentative excuse for extrava gance and public debt always fails and fades at the approach of the in evitable hour of adjustment, of final payment, and the cold and hard fact ef the obligation, remains, a bitter residium o the specious doctrine that wrought it. Confication, in some fashion and degree, is invariably the end of the issue. The promise of improvement, ef expansion, of communal up-lift and advantage in the commercial sease, does not obviate the promise to pay. Nor does the fulfilled creed of public improvement always com feasate for the reckless indulgence that wrought it An impoverished fate, city, county, is on more ad mirable a thing that the debt-made personal slave who ekes out a wretched existance under the domin tea of a power that may not be gainsaid upon the plea of either lonor or expediency. Astoria and Astorians are up against a very crisis of the sort un der review; she must meet it in the eourse of her provisions for the fu ture, if her hands are hot altogether Bummed by the weight assumed in the past She will have to go deeply into her financial situation and save lierself in time from the overwhelm mg confiscatory conclusions now confronting her. It is not a pleasant suggestion to make; and only its im perative and impending presence eompels the utterance of the warn ing. . The revision of the charter debts limits year by year will not save her; there must be something much more palpable done than that; the must get down to facts, figures and fiat conditions and we propose to see to it that these are furnished, and exploited, until there will not be a fraction of excuse left for the eontinuance of the policies that are driving her to the crisis. She is safe as yet; and to preserve that security there is to be a united and well de fined effort on the part of many of her best citizens, aided by this paper. There will be no mincing of the matter; it will be done in delib erate and straightforward fashion, in the open light of day, in a manner that will compel notice and thought and action on the part of those who have been far too indifferent or short sighted, or who have relied too much pon what has been told them. with the glare and bombast and hur rah of campaigning; we are able now to conn the threat and the promise of the hour and do not take the word of the "man higher up" as once we did. And for the sake of the unborn generations it is to be hoped we shall cultivate the safer and saner thought and course. We have need of the profounder impulse to crucial and critical analysis of men and measures and may well dis pense with the buncombe that used to satisfy and guide us. Even here in Astoria, away out at the end of the continent, the sense of individual capacity for delving and discovering the enlightened and eco nomic principle and its best expon ent is plainly apparent, and that faculty will be wtell exercised on Tuesday next. And we are conscious of the impending choice of Judg Taft in the grave premise. SPECIAL BARGAIN : OFFBRIN for Monday. NOTE THESE VALUE GIVING BAEGAINS. n r Ml '3 TnkO TtrTvTrTTif ots worth to $35 each. Saturday and Monday only. Women's strictly tailor made Suits, of extra quality materials in worsted, serge, broadcloth and cheviotts. Navy blue, black, brown, myrtle, green and also checks in the best colorings and combinations,, all sizes for wemen and Misses, values up to $35 PC! ASK YOURSELF Are you not better off than you were 12 years ago? Haven't you witnessed 12 years of unprecedented prosperity? Can anyone convince you. that you would have fared better - if Bryan had been elected in 1896? Can anyone convince you that you would have fared better if Bryan had been elected in 1900? Can anyone convince you that you would have fared better had Parker, for whom Bryan urged you to vote, been elected in 1904? now, men, can anyone convince you that you would fare better Bryan should be elected in 1908? YOTJ MUST ANSWER WITH YOUR VOTE. THE THINKING HOUR. ET TU, BRUTE! If the Evening Budget does not take care it will be guilty of ex pressing a real opinion; a dangerous habit when the warping influence of an unforgotten hold-up Legislative session lends unction to the expres sion, or the equally potent promise of the city printing may be conceded to actuate that opinion. While we are at it, we will suggest to our evening contemporary that when it alludes to this paper in any way, it use our name, style and title. We will lend it this much courage by volunteering this permission! Bryan's election would convert the business of the United States into a huge conundrum, and the answer might not be forthcoming for years, Judging from the rocks, he throws Governor Haskell has fallen back upon the Rockies. At all events, he has struck a rock road. The way to lose a job and shut up the shop is to vote for Bryan. He is the storm center of public and business distrust. President Roosevelt is in his hap piest frame of mind when the people give him three cheers and add z tiger. Aftr a circle through the Middle West Mr. Taft is convinced that this is a mighty good year for Republi cans. Bryan has smashed his record and ruined the graphophone service by making 26 speeches in a single day. For the next 60 hours the average American will do a lot of thinking: many have done theirs and await only the hour and means of expres sion; others, having no mind nor dis position to think , will do what they arc told by those nearest in influence and interest, in the matter of their voting, and eventually the whole people will have said their say in the great quadrennial crisis, and we shall know their will and the man that is to carry it out. We firmly believe it is to be William Howard Taft The situation has its fascination and offers one of the kindling and stirring elements of our political life; it is the season of doubt; the waver intr of the' tremendous balance; the tense. and brief, period between tri- j A Tammanyite, like a Missouri In- umph or defeat of the personal aimsjdian, is bad enough without the priv- and deep desires, of millions of good liege of repeating. citizens; the halting moment of vi tal import to the nation: No man may escape its impressive and po tential meaning. ' We Americans are learning the les mns of the years and becoming less volatile in our partisanship; we are ot carried away as we used to be The best souls suffer most, while baseness and flaunting pride go free. But pain is not all pain. Let's keep the windows open to the East, be worthy, and sometime we shall know. If there is any other way to teach virtue than to practice it, I do not know it. a suit, your choice in this lot S31S.OO and $18.00 :AING.OAT: Just received a large assortment of the well known Kenyon Raincoats on approval, which we will keep here Saturday and Monday only as they are samples of only one of a kind and many in the line which we wsuld not reorder for stock but will deliver any coat in the lot to you Monday for 51! the cxtremelv, low orice - - . kp lit Cloths are Priestley cravenette satins and rubberized silk. IF I Ky I 1 S3 IteKaQMStytiit IMMGIM DRY GOODS COMPANY V' IJU U: One Is running on bit Becord; the other ia running away from r Kecord. Some of Bryan's "Reforms," Bryan la reported aa saying In a ;peecb at Cincinnati that Mr. Taft was claiming credit for reforms Be (Bryan) had long advocated. The "reforms" with which, Bryan's name has been associated In the pub lic mind are the Wilson-Gorman tariff bill of 1803-4, which brought upon the United States the worst stagnation and depression of industry since 1837, the calamities of. that year having also been caused by a Democratic low tar iff, the scheme for which Bryan fought with such frenzy In 1800 to put fifty cent dollars in place of good money and pay all debts, including the wages of labor, in the depreciated currency: his proposal of 1000 to abandon the Philippines at a time when order bad been nearly twtored there at the coot of hundreds of our soldiers' lives and many uilllb::s of American money; his opposition In 1000 to federal legislation for the ro.itrnlnt of trusts: bis more recent proposition that the federal gov ernment should own all the railways. modified later by the proviso that the nation should buy all the big lines and the states the small ones; bis advocacy of a compulsory guaranty of bank de posits, enabling any scalawag to do business as a banker on the strength of a guaranty which would throw upon others the burden of his reckless ness or absolute dishonesty, and last, but not least, his amazing contrivance for "preventing" trusts by refusing to allow one corporation to handle more than 60 per cent of domestic trade In one particular article. If Mr. Taft has claimed any of these "reforms" the fact has escaped public notice. Bryan's title to all of them Is undisputed. It Is a list that carries with it the evidence from Bryan's own record of his pitiful Incapacity to grasp public questions ia a practical way, of his utter unfitness to be trust ed with the power of chief magistrate over the vast Interests that come with in the scope of federal authority. Mr. Taft's high standing and his certainty of election ere based on the fact that he is all that Bryan Is not; that bis past and bis present offer to the Amer ican people and to the world an exam ple of good citizenship, of able and un prejudiced conduct on the bench and of courage, firmness and sympathy In the direction of the great undertakings and momentous public- duties Intrusted to his charge, which prove his eminent fitness for the highest of all charges- the office of president If Bryan misses any of his "reforms" he will have to look for them In some other .ilrectlon than the Republican national neket. "coffee What is essential'to good coffee? . Good bean ground fresh, and a woman of common sense. Your trocar ritur ref moan K r iaal Bk. ehUUac'i Bull w ? Mfc Vtf"4i Till V as- opvftirrr MORE THAN HE NEEDS Once in a while man gets more land than he can b&ndle land he'd be glad to exchange, but doesn't know how or where. Most likely we can help you out if you're in that fixat any rate it won't cost you any thing to find out by calling here. All sorts of real estate proposition takes care of here buying, selling, renting. A. R. CYRUS about it. 424 Commercial street, Astoria. .... FOR A . . . , VICTOR OR AN EDISON PHONOGRAPH -)00 TO(- lolwson Phonograph Parlors Second Floor Over Scholfield ft M tttson Co. uOiJ ri STEEL & E WART Electrical Contractors Phone Main 3881 .... 426 Bond Street LET US TELL YOU ABOUT Tungsten Electric Lamp Greatest advance in lighting methods since the Invention of incandescent lamps. EXAMPLE C P. Ordinary electric lamp' consumes; .; 110 watts per hour 32 CP. "Tungsten" electric lamp consumes , ...... 40 watts per hour Saving 70 watts per hour By using "Tungsten" lamps jrou can get 275 per cent increase In light for the same cost or in other words can have the same quantity of illumination for 35 per cent of the cost of lighting with ordinary electric lamps. The Astoria Electric Co,
