SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1908.
THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA. OREGON.
, . . ...
tljlr Si its lMm-'- . :
Established 1S73.
Published Daily EcPt MondJblE ji S., BELLINGER CO.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. j7QQ
By mail, per year " " '" "' ,60
By carrie-, per month .............
WEEKLY ASTORIAN.
By mail, per year, in advance i
Entered as second-class 'matter July CO, 1905, a the potoffice at As
toria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3. 1879 ,
Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorkn to either residence
or S e of b sLss may be made bypostal ;card or through teUphon.
Any irregularis in delivery should be immediately reported to the office
f publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 65L ?
THE WEATHER
Oregon, Washington and Idaho
Fair. THAT $600,000.
One of the bcit posted of Astoria's
citizens, yesterday, told a reporter of
the Morning Astorian imi '
beginning of the year 1908, over
$600 000 of the private wealth of this
city has gone to Portland for invest
ment; and that more is constantly
being negotiated in this direction. .
This is not pleasant news; but it
is perfectly logical ,
Portland is one of the great and
live centers, where active capital is
wanted and appreciated and upon
which adequate returns are achieved;
it is growing immensely and rapidly
and if its present ratio is maintained
it is destined to become one of the
greatest of the Pacific metropolis.
No one -may blame the Astoria capi
talist for taking his money there for
investment when practically all its
promises are made good, , and even
bettered; while at home there is noth
ing to invite, nor repay, investment
This is a condition that must be
changed if we are to ever hold a
place among the big and busy and
prosperous cities of the northwest.
Our limit in a business way seems
to have been wrought; we can dp no
more without development and the
fewer elements of production and
manufacture - that come with the
great commercial agencies such as
steamship and railway lines, the uti
lization of the soil and the organic
trades and business that run parallel
with these fundaments. The question
is a grave one and needs the best
thought and study our people can:
give. Think it over awhileL
WHAT IS ITS VALUE?.
The .Morning Astorian asks in the
name of Republican Astoria and Re
publican Clatsop, what the majori
ties of 500 in the former and 800 in
the latter, are worth to this people?.
What the significance of these major
political advantages to the party pos
sessing them, since it permits the
minority to dissipate and annul the
municipal majority every time it sees
fit to do so?. .Why the Republican
party of Astoria never uses, nor as
serts, its power and prestige in the
city, but rather, deliberately ignores
it, or hands it over to the Democrats,
who use it for all it is worth (to
them) and leave the bills to be set
tled by the overwhelming, two-to-one
Republican majority of taxpay
ers and voters?.
The situation offers an anomaly
that defies explanation; save on the
ground that a "hoodoo" exists and
cannot be shaken off. . In point of
wealth, population, commercial in
fluence, and all the potent agencies
employed in the play of politics, the
city dominate's the county utterly;
the vitality of the Republican party
is furnished by the city; and the core
and center of all partisan and po
litical , movement and achievement
lies within municipal boundaries; yet
' the strength, the utility; the essential
influence of ' Republicanism . here.
falls flat ''and profitless every time it
is invoked in behalf of civic interests
in Astoria. "
Why is it so?. "
We do not believe the sum of vir
tue and wisdom and integrity and
capacity is herded and held within
the compass of the minority in As
toria. We cannot subscribe to the
doctrine that the majority of our
people are irresponsible, incapable;
administratively weak and senseless
ly indifferent. Nor do we desire to
adopt the almost unavoidable conclu
sion, that the "dominant" minority
is less honest and contributes more
to the creed and graft of the hour
and is therefore bolstered in place
and authority. We do know that the
problem offers some very ugly in
ferences, and none of them to tne
credit of the party.that permits the
oemetuitv of the shamemi ana in
congruous condition. The time is at
hand for self-analysis all along the
Republican line in this cityf for a
well-centered, , definite, determined
movement toward the restoration of
the control of the actual majority;
and it were well for Republican As
toria to do its thinking quickly and
rationally and retrieve an ascendancy
they have given away, or sold up, or
passively yielded, to a minority that
is making blamed bad use of it
UNIFY THE ELECTIONS.
The tendency of the day, in every
State in the Union, is to the nmfica
cation of the electoral work and
budget; the simplifying and cheapen
ing of the processes and costs of the
franchise, and the merging of the
system to a single day and a single
bill of costs. It is Wee all else the
modern has to do and pay for; it is
being wrought to a stage of effic
iency and economy and despatch that
is purely business-like; and State
after State is falling into line. The
day will soon be here when the elec
toral work of the Nation, State,
County, City and Precinct, will be
centralized to a common period that
will have divested the electors of the
everlasting worry, loss of time, and
irrational public expense now pre
valent
As things stand now we are afflict
ed from three to six times t $ year
with these unescapable demands up
on the public conscience, purse and
time; and there is no real reason why
the whole thing may not be safely
mimified in every relation; nor any
obstacle in the way that an enlight
ened public disposition may not over
come. As a matter of fact the peo
ple are wearying of ' the multiplicity
of the elections that are thrust upon
them, and the system itself is amen
able to many a change for the better,
chief of which will be the uniting of
the franchises into one universal ex
pression at a given hour of time and
at a minimum of public agitation,
time-loss and cost
Let us study the matter and try to
realize the advantages it offers!.
If You Are Over Fifty Read This
Most people past middle-age Suf
fer frooi kidney and bladder disor
ders which Foley's Kidney Remedy
would cure. Stop the drain on the
vitality and restore needed strength
and vigor. Commence, taking JFoley's
Kidney Remedy today. ' T. F; 'Lau-
rin, Owl .Drug Store, i Z . ..
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-Interesting
tatitics have just oeen mcn:u
ere .which show the surprising
growth and magnitude of tne auio
industry in this, country. The present
capital of this business is $94,000,000
with invested in kindred
trades and $57,000,000 in garages ami
retail salesrooms, making a total oil
$187,000,000 in a business practically
unknown ion years agol More than
58,000 persons are employed in au
to factories throughout the country;
29,000 more arc employed indirectly
makinn parts anil anotner i,3w
in garages and salesrooms, making a
total of more than im,wu employes.
Figured on the regular basis this in
dustry, therefore, is the support of
nearly half a million persons. There
are now 253 builders of automobles
in the United States of which at least
125 have passed the experimental
stage. The output tor ias year was
about 52,000 cars, the largest in the
history of the industry, which up to
date has turned out altogether near:
ly 200,000 machines. Careful esti
mates for the coming year place the
outout at 75.000 cars of which four
factories will produce about half and
one alone 12,000 autos. During the
history of this industry $28,000,000
worth of foreign cars nave oeen im
ported, but to-day America is export
ing far more than she imports, liigni
years ago the sales of American cars
totalled less than $8,000,000; last year
they were more than $105,000,000.
Perhaps the most ssgnihcant teature
of the whole development of this in
fant industry is found in the fact that
the great majority of cars now manu
factured sell for $1500 or less, show
ing that the auto, at first only the toy
of the wealthy, is fast becoming an
accepted means of transportation
among all classes.
Saturday, November 7(th?
AT 8:15 P.M.
EARNEST' PAANANEN
in a grand
OLIN REGIT AIw.-
Assisted by Miss Esther Sundquist and Mrs. Chas. Abercrombie, pianist
PROGRAM
5.
1. Canzonetta ........By Gabriel Marie
2. Russian humoreske . i .............. ... ............ .P. Tschaikowsky
3. Hungarian scene ................. .Keler Bela
4. Violin Concert vl. ........ .-De' Beriot
Violin solos by Ernest Paananen and Miss Esther Sundquist, assisted
by Mrs. Charles Amercrombie. " , '' " " 'v; -
Finnish Popular Air's for violin,.-...... . .r. . .... ...
Perpctua Mobile ; --....i . . '....'. Carl Bohm
Mazurka de Consert. . . ,'. . .-. .'.7. .V. .'. ;..Ovide Musin
PRICES: 35 cents and 50 cents.
SEATS O N SALE AT OWL DRUG STORE
The Color Line
New York News Letter
The bieKest club in the world hs
just been organized here. Its bigness
consists, however, not in the num
ber of its members but in their size,
the organization being known as the
Fat Men's Club of New York. The
first requirement for membership is
a weight of at least 300 pounds and
in the first election of officers just
held the ten officers elected have a
total weight of 3435 pounds, or 343
pounds per officer. For obvious rea
sons the club has taken ground-floor
rooms. Altnougn it is nor a xrusr,
the first by-law states that the ob
ject of the club is "to further the de
velopment of corporations, in ad
dition to a weight of 300 pounds re
quirements for eligibility to member
ship are a waist measurement of at
least 46 inches, This of course is the
minimum and the by-laws adopted at
its first meeting indicate the advan
tages of further avoirdupois. It is
provided that any man of good ap
petite who weighs 450 pounds is eli
gible for honorary membership and
will be entitled to cast one and two-
thirds votes. The by-laws also pro
vide that any Ynember losing ten
pounds in weight shall be suspended
until he recover it. These by-laws can
be changed either by a two-thirds
vote by numbers or by a vote of two-
thirds of the weight of the club ir
respective of numbers. For the latter
contingency a pair of hay scales has
been provided. The president of this
club is a light weight of only 380
pounds. The sergeant-at-arms weighs
510 pounds. , . . - s ;
According to experts on nerve dis
eases, JNew xork is tne nervous cen
tre of the country. Certain investiga
tors who have interested themselves
in the question, of the amount of
nervous energy expended in, various
cities of the United States have com
piled a table which places New York
first in an alarming manner. Accord
ing to the table this city leads all oth
er cities to a surprising extent, since
for each 100 units of nervous energy
expended in New-York other munici
palities rank in the following order:
Chicago 81 units, Pittsburg 80 units,
Philadelphia 64 units, San Francisco
60 units, St. Louis 49 units, and New
Orleans 41 units. Of course there, are
various other : intermediary cities' but
New York is so far ahead of the rest
that the conservaton of its nervous
energy has became a major problem,
especially in view of the doubt as to
whether New York gets a proportion
ately. greater retorn for its nervous
expenditure ,as . compared to other
cities.. Various solutions looking to
more quiet life have been suggested.
The Rev. Dr. Aked, Rockefeller's
pastor, in an article for Apgleton's
magazine, suggests more faithful
church . attendance. "The . Americans
who live hardest," says he, "are those
who attend church least." Inversely,
therefore, New York must be the
wickedest as well as the busiest city
in the world.. Aside from this, how:
ever, doctors assert that if the city
does not let down in its nervous ex
penditure, its municipal . supremacy
will soon be a thing of the past.,
On of the last vestiges of British
royalty in New York, once the Tory
center of the country, before it be
came the United tSates, has just dis
appeared. The big English , oak
known as the "Prince of Wales Tree,"
which has stood in Central Park for
nearly half a century has just been
cut down. Curiously enough the axe
which brought it low was wielded by
a loyal Irishman. The "Prince of
Wales Tree" or King's tree as it was
sometimes called, was really a Hying
monument to the pleasant relations
existing between England and Ameri
ca at the time of its planting by a
royal " hand. It was during the visit
of tfie then Prince of Wales, now
King Edward VII, to this country in
I860, when he traveled under the in
sognito of Baron Renfrew that the
famous tree was set out. It was done
at the suggestion of Mr. A. H. Green,
then controller of the parks. Many
prominent men were present at the
ceremony to observe a future king
shovelling dirt with ' an ordinary
spade into" the bote in which the tree
was set. At ,the same time when the
English oak was planted Baron Ren
frew" also set close by an American
elm. The oak is gone now in spite of
all the efforts of arboriculturists to
save it, but the elm is still flourishing.
The trunk and larger branches of the
famous oak have been preserved and
will be cut up into souvenirs.
The, famous question, which even
tually went to the Supreme Court, as
to whether frogs' legs should be
classed as poultry or fish, promises
to pale into insignificance when com
pared to one which is now troubling
local custom appraisers and causing
epicures to tremble lest they be de
prived of a famous delicacy. The
point of argument now is whether
under the Dingley law, caviar, which
is a preparation of the eggs of the
sturgeon, should be classed as fish
Fish enters this country under a high
duty; caviar, as fish eggs, free from
duty. The contention of the custom
appraisers is that the eggs of fish
from which fish arc hatched are na
turally fish, and therefore dutiable as
such. On the other hand the impor
ters insist that fishes eggs arc no
more fish than hen's eggs are poultry.
They hold that an egg which can
never hatch into a fish, as in the case
of caviar, cannot possibly be a fish,
any more than a hard boiled hen's
egg could be a chicken. This diffi
cult question- which is now on its way
to the Supreme Court will eventually
evoke an answer just about as com
plicated : as the solution of the fa
mous question as to which came first,
the egg or the chicken.
DO IT HESITATE
fJ&TL iff
1 JUST ARRIVED
I Shipment of
Norwegian Bocll Beer
$2.00 the Dozen.
As displayed upon our shelves, will
give you every shade of paint that
you may require for any purr-nsc
in-door, oi out. These paints are
well ground in fine Linseed Oil, with
selected white lead. They are uni
form in quality and spread very
smoothly, covering a large surface
The durability of this paint is well
known in the trade. Convenient
sized cans in all popular colors. If
you will try these once you will al
ways use them. ,
AUeA Wall Paper
and Paint Co.
Cor. UTH AMD BOND
AMERICAN IMPORTING CO; j
s Phone 1881. 580 CommcrciaSt. J ; j
Importers and Wholesale Uquor Dealers,
AMUSEMENTS,.
ASTORIA
THEATRE
Sunday, Nov. 8
H. A. PRAZBB
PRESENTS ,
MR. "';
JAS.J.CORBETT
In the Broadway
Fardal Success
FACING THE MUSIC
Superb Scenic Production.
A Great Cit. t
300 Performancei Madison Square
Theatre, New York 150 Per
Formancet Powers Thea
tre, Chicago.
Prices,50,75,$1.00 and $1.50
IN FIVE MINUTES YOU WILL
BE RID OF STOMACH
MISERY
NO DANGER OF DYSPEPSIA
Your Druggist Has a Pleasant Tast
ing Preparation Called Diapepsm
Which Cures You Before You Real
ize it Ri3 Yourself of Stomach
Trouble Forever.
Some people think they have In
digestion, others Catarrh of the
Stomach, others Nervousness, Cancer
or Dyspepsia, etc. Call it this if you
will, 'but the real name for your
trouble is Food Fermentation, with
only partial digestion. Everything
you eat turns to either Acid, Stom
ach gas or Stomach poison, which
weaken the digestive organs, causing
a lack of gastric- juice. , Your
food sours, is only half digested, and
you become affected -with loss of
appetite, pressure and fullness, after
eating,' burning 'sensation, a feeling
of vomiting, heartburn, water brash
and ' tenderness in ' the pit of - the
stomach, slimy tongue, bad faste in
the mouth, constipation, nausea,
belching of gas, dizziness, sick head
aches, mental depression and many
other common symptoms.
You can cure all this by not eat-
wig, by not putting any rood in your
stomach to ferment;' but how about
the nourishment' needed to sustain
your bodily strength? If you are a
stomach, sufferer, , cither man or
woman, young or old, whether you
call it Indigestion or any other name,
go now to your druggist and give 50
cents for a case of Pape's Diapepsin.
Every possible kind of Stomach
trouble is readily cured by Diapepsin,
which takes right hold of the food
in your stomach .and digests it alone,
without the help of the stomach, just
as if your stomach wasn't there.
rAfter a few days' use of Diapepsin
your Stomach will again be in good
working order, your meals will thor
oughly digest , and your intestines
will be clean and fresh, and you will
have no use for laxatives or liver
regulators. , -
Hexamethylenetetramine
..The above' is the name of a Ger-,
man, chemical, which is , one of the
many valuable ingredients of Foley's
Kidney Remedy. Hexamethylenete
tramine is recognized by medical
text, books, and authorities as a uric
acid solvent and antiseptic for the
urine. Take Foley's Kidney Remedy
as soon as you notice any irregulari
ties, and avoid a serious malady. Ti
F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. .: .
STEEL & EWART
Electrical Contractors
Phone Main 3881 .. . . 426 Bond Street
wmssatBasgk
MS
SCOW BAY BRASS & 111 II
ASTOltIA, OHKUOW
Iron and Brass Founders, Land and Manns Enginecrt.
Uo-to-DU Sawmill Machinery rrompt ttwniion given w wjiw
18th and Franklin Ave.
work. Ttl Main S461
Sherman Trahsier Co.
HENRY I HERMAN, Manager.
Hacks, Carriages Baggage Checked and Transferred-Trnf ki 14 FtraJtwi
wagons nanos Movea, ooaea ana ouwymu. ,
451 Commercial itrett - Mala Pfc W
FINANCIAL,
First 1
ational Bank of Astaria
Jacob Kamm
J.
MILLINERY SALE
Our Entire Line
of Millinery
at Cost.
La Mode
682 Commercial St, '
V Astoria, Oregon.
DIRECTORS
W. F. McGrecor G. C Euvel
W. Ladd S.S. Gordon :,
Capital ........ SIGSOO
Surplus 2500
Stockholders' Liability ........ 100,000
J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President
a I. PETERSON, Vice-President
J. W. GARNER, Assistant ashlar
FRANK PATTON, Cashier
HOT OircOLD
oiiifest
- .
6S
Just Right
CLOSSET & DEVERS,
v, , , p PORTLAND, ORB, , , .,,
IT'S A GOOD THING TO REFER
to the reputation 'of a store before
making any important purchases
therein. Before you buy is the time
tb look up the matter. Ask questions.
Find out if the store you intend pa
tronizing keeps its pledges. Be sure
that you learn if it sells the qualities
it claims; if it treats ts customers
honestly and fairly, then, if satisfied,
buy there. Do all the asking you
wish about us among your .; friends,
and that you will result in your, com
ing here regularly. , . . ,
Come in and sec our $125 Kitchen
Range.
"THE BIG .STORE."
ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS - S232.C00
Transacts a General Banking Business Interest Paid on Tims Depos'ts
Four Per Cent. Per Annum
Eleventh end Dtune 8ts. .... Astoiie, Oregon
scandinavian-a ae r i c a n
Savings bank
ASTORIA, OREGON
' OUR MOTTO: "Safety Superctdei All Other Conilij.rnio."
' , ' V, , ....'.FOB A..,. '
VICTOR OR AN EDISON
PHONOGRAPH
7; : -)GO:TO(- . : " ; '
olinsonPlionograpli Go,
Parlors Second Floor Over Scholfield ft Mattson Co.
John Foi, Pres. , F. L. Bishop, Sec. Astoria Savings tfmit, Treas.
Nelson Troyer, Vice-Pres. and Supt
ASTORIA: IRON WORKS
DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS "
s r , , , OF, THE LATEST IMPROVED . .-7
Canning iVMchlneryr Marine Engines and Pollers
. COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS FURNISHED.
Correspondence Solicited. . . Foot of Femth Street
.THE1,
! ; First-Class Liquors landDCifJars
; , &2 Commercial Street
. Corner Commercial and 14th. ' ASTORIA, OKSGON