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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Good bean ground fresh,
and a woman of common
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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.
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