SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1908.
THE MOItNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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WHY WE CAN SELL CLOTHES CHEAPER
Our store is located on Bond Street where rent is more reasonable than on Commercial We employ
no clerks but prefer to do the saleswork ourselves Wc pay spot cash for our goods as soon as they are
received, thereby getting full advantage of the cash discount. Under the circumstances do you wonder
we can self cheaper than our competitors?
We Carry the Famous HEIffiAllWILE Onion Made Guaranteed ninths
No better Clothes than the above were ever offered the public.
Suits from $10 to $25. Overcoats and Raincoats $10 to $25
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No Profits no Business
Everybody knows that business cannot be conducted
without profit. Don't be misled by advertisements, no
matter how big announcing that a certain merchant is sel
ling goods below cost. We all know that no man can af
ford to do this.
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Must Realize a Profit
If he doesn't, how do you suppose he pays his rent,
his clerks, his lights, freight and many other expenses too
numerous to mention. This store is run under the most
economic management and is in a position to sell cheaper
cuAMKsmp HB WORK1NGMAN
STORB
Bond Street Next to Ross Higgins
OLD OTTER
CUBESr PROTEST
DOE8 NOT LIKE METHODS OF
PRESENT CITY GOVERNMENT
AND TAKES IT TO TASK.
The following communication Ulki
trafcht to th point on thing up
permost In the public mind and every
taxpayer will do well to permit e It
nd ponder iti suggestion deeply.
"Editor Astorian: - .-;
"Tht Budget continue to tots bo
net i to the city father, perfumed
wltk) iweet words inch at no poli
tic. (no chance) bcautiful street,'
'never had a street ordinance beaten,'
etc. I do not claim that tht present
couneilmen hv deliberately attemp
ted to rain oar town but I do assert
that la their attempt to perpetuate
the 10 called 'citiiens party by mak-
ing 'work for the boyi' they have
pretty nearly knocked the values out
of real estate. Now do they ihow
faith In their management by pur
chasing a lot or two for the boom
they seem to Imagine they can create
by blowing in money gotten on a
public mortgage.
"Now, is it a fact that the Council
deserves special praise for having no
ttreet ordinances beaten in court)
There was no use of anybody trying
to beat them, and this is the reason:
Before the 'cltiiena party got Into
power, our charter allowed a single
figure, or word, in error, to in
validate an ordinance. Under the
present charter any error csn be cor
rected by reassessing; so no wonder
their ordinances hold the floor. It
used to be that street crossings were
made at public expense, making it
necessary for the council to levy
quite sum for the purpose, In ad
dition to tht levy for general expen
se. This necessary levy for treet
crossings was a check on reckless
street work. Under the present re
gime the city levy, In mills, is more
than in former times when street
crossings were included. Formerly
property owners could remonstrate
with effect; now an earnest remon
strance but provokes a laugh. These
items ar mentioned to show how
easy is a council man's job to what
it used to be'.
"How about this Irving Avenue
improvement if such it may be
called? Everybody in Astoria, out
side of the council said before the
work was started, in fact before, any
step were taken, that the improve
ment would be a failure and the ex
pense would fall on the city. All
want Improved streets , where they
are needed, but we are not going to
vote for men who believe in building
streets in the uninhabited portion of
the town, at public expense.
"And now come the sea wall bill:
An egg laid and hatched in the coun
cil rooms, wholly, at city expense;
and they want us to feed this chick
en henceforth and forever more. This
sea wall bill is put before us for
health's sake, just because the bill
under any title other than a life sav
er could not confiscate a man's lot.
In other words you cant make a man
go bankrupt except for health. The
plan of this gteit seawall which we
need in our business at this stage, of
the game as much as a dog needs
needs two tails is a wooden bulkhead
stretching from Smith's to Tongue
Point, costing $300,000, one end of
which would rot before the other
end was finished and $300,000 for a
wooden bulkhead in 45 years at five
per cent interest, compounded an
nually, would amount (without the
rebuilding of the wooden bulkhead
every 10 to lS years) to the enormous
sum of $2,400,000. Thia would certain
ly be good pay for the health which
only the city council has lost.. Why
the council failed to drop the sea
wall matter when so requested by all
the heavy taxpayers of Astoria is one
of the great problems.
"And the Chamber of Commerce is
asking us to pay $15,000 this year
and more each year as the town grows
and Mr. Cornelius raises our assess
ment, for the Port of Astoria and
whether this Port bill has hair on its
I head as long as that on the sea wall
t bill. I dont say. You will get a little
pamphlet through the mail telling all
about the crop to be raised..,,
"And we have another amendment
to consider; one to tax our holdings
to the tune of $4500 a year to support
the Chamber of Commerce and other
towns do not support' commercial
bodies by public tax; then why should
ours? The way things are drifting
in our community we shall soon b
asked to levy taxes to support the
'rick man, poor man, beggan man,
thief, doctor, lawyer, preacher, priest'
"The carrying of the proposed
amendments would surely place our
town in the hands of a receiver. The
real estate holder in Astoria has been
plundered almost to a finish. Because
some men and newspapers become
desperate at the sight of some town
surpassing us in growth, is no reason
why we should all go bug house,'
More plundering is proposed at the
approaching election than ever before
and are we property holders going to
protect what we have bought and
nairl for? We have at last, after thir-
ty years, a newspaper that is trying
to save us from the looter and air
castle man, and to it we should feel
mighty grateful. Put the right men
in the council and kill the bloodsuck
ing amendments, and by doing so we
may be able to save what left of
our real estate.
"OLD RESIDENTER."
RELAY RACE IS ON.
TRENTON, N. J, Nov. 21.
Promptly at 6 o'clock this mroning
the Y. M. C. A. relay race to Wash
ington, which started at New York
yesterday afternoon, was resumed
here. From this place to Camden, N.,
thence to Philadelphia, Wilming
ton, Del, Baltimore and then to
Washington is the route. Because of
the new rule prohibiting running
throughout the night the time of the
finish is uncertain. ' Baltimore will
probably be reached Saturday night
and if it is early enough the race to
Washington will be continued but if
it is late it will be necessary to wind
up the run on the following Monday.
J MAY SAVE CURIOS.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21.-An
electrolytic process used for the first
time b the labratory of the Univer
sity of California Is said to have re
claimed for science a number of an
cient bronze curious of great value,
recently threatened with complete
destruction through oxidization. '
The soil whence the curious were
excavated in various part of the
world is often impregnated with min
eral that corrode the specimen and
the oxidization progresses even more
rapidly in this climate. The newly
discovered treatment consist in part
of an application of electricity atter
the objects are wrapped in sheet nc ;
and immersed in a charcoal olution.
' Sick Headache,
This distressing direase result
from a a disordered condition of the
stomach, and can be cured by taking
Chamberlain's Stomach and liver
Tablets. Get a free sample at Frank
Hart and leading druggist, and try
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