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THE WEATHER
Oregon, Wasbineton
Generally fair.
and Idaho
PORTLAND'S MURDERS.
ing what is involved and the jeopar
dy confronting this high phase of its
boasted civilisation. We are not ast
ing that Murderer Finch hang, out of
hand; but we are asking that he be
given the fullest "pound of flesh" ev
er exacted, and yielded, in an Orv
gon court
The Oregon metropolis is growing
rapidly and paying the penalty of
that growth. She is furnishing forth
some of the foulest murders ot tns Thrt is a nice distinction in these
day, with almost schedule regularity .,.rm$. one ti,at Astorians will do
and a frequency that is not the least
dreadful feature of the situation.
The Finch-Fisher affair it as near
climax of this ultra wickedness as
has ever been turned out there, and
its perpetrator is without a leg to
stand on as to cause, justification or
appeal The whole State revolts at
the cowardly deed and anathemizes
the doer of it. And if a hanging does
not come out of Portland pretty
soon, , it will have a reputation de
servedly fouL
It is presumed that the city pays
enough, in all conscience, for the
maintenance and effectiveness of its
policing and its courts and there
should be some returns on this huge
investment; something, to make
murder less feasible, less promising,
less popular; something to indicate
What the law and its courts are there
lor.
The courts of Multnomah have a
case now that invites their peculiar
concern. One of its servants, a cham
pion of the law, has been deliberate
ly and coldly shot to death by an
other of its servants and champion,
thus bringing the crucial interest in
the event directly home to bench,
bar and office and necessitating the
unswerving play of the balances,
since the law must stand for its own
honor as well as for its terrible vi
latioa The people of Oregon will watch
this ease with vital interest, consider-
DOMAIN, AND DOMINION.
well to study closely, this week, and
use in weighing the critical employ
ment of their franchise, next week.
The legal and recorded boundaries
of Astoria constitute its domain; the
homes and lands and lots and blocks;
the buildings, improvements, fixtures
and appurtenances to the homes, bus
inesses, and permanent investments
there, owned in fee, by the people in
severalty, stand for the substance an:)
quality of that domain; and the merg
ing of those private interests into a
communal whole, under the univer
sal sanction of the owners and the
protection and direction of the law,
marks and limits that domain.
Dominion over that domain con
sists of the right to govern, protect,
and serve it under the law, for the
separate, and the common, advan
tage, of every soul at interest, n
such manner as to create the least
possible loss, burden, imposition or
injustice. The people themselves ran it
ordain the policies that are to con
trol and conserve their property and
priviliges, and name the men to car
ry them out. And in the doing cf
this grave woik they deputize th:lr
own primary function in large meas
ures to their. servants and represen
tatives, passing the direct dominion
on to hands presumably able and
honest and confiding their massed
interests to the staff of agents they
believe will do the - best with the
trust.
The question to be decided put
week from Wednesday, by our peo
ple, is; Has the 'Citiaeiu' sdmimstrt
tion, during its long lease of author
ity, done what was best.? Has the
quadrupling of the municipal debt,
the 'obliteration of property-values,
and the practical confiscation of th -
lesser holdings here, conserved the
general interest and made for tlu
peace, success and financial advan
tage of the city,? Will they conserve
it any further by committing the
community to the policies they stand
for and which must plunge Astoria
into a very maelstnrm of non-essential
debt? The answer must he made.
ihhhhimhiii t iimtiHumimM
PUBLICITY, THE CURE.
There are those to whom the can
did and fearless discussion of public,
and quasi-public, men. and measures,
in the columns of this paper, of late,
is an affront, an outrage, a menace,
and a sore inconvenience. We re
gret this element of the situation,
since we would rather keep our
friends, but it emphasizes and justi
fies the usefulness and real popu
larity of the course we are pursuing.
There is no cure for public ills like
honest publicity; and in America
everywhere, it is becoming the
scourage of the bad servant and the
incompetent, in politics, and out of
it. The press has always been the
hand-maiden of the law, and the law
cannot dispense with its service yet
awhile.
No public journal likes to make a
business of exposing its city's local
shortcomings; but the safety and
progressive advantage of the com
munity demand the unequivocal ex
position of every fallacy and wrong
that besets it. To do less than w;
are doing would oc uisnonesi; ana
as the oldest, leading, most influen
tial paper in this field, we intend to
route out the dubious facts and pub
lish them, until there is a radical and
redemptory sentiment aroused and
an alert interest manifest in the ac
tual good of the city.
The one blatant circumstance of n
small struggling city like Astoria
laboring and groaning under an ex
istant, and necessitous, public in
debtedness" of over a million dollars,
is ample to nullify the widest and
frankest inquiry and declaration; es
pecially, when the party and people
who have piled this menacing load
on the city, stand brazenly for re
election and, as brazenly, eommitteJ
to the doubling of the annihilating
charge.
We aver that such a policy .'s
ruinous; that the credit of Astoria
cannot stand the strain; that her re
sources and businesses and values
are inadequate to such a drain; that
her people must check the trend to
civic extravagance, or pay the penal
ty of bankruptcy, complete, and
shameful.
OUR TREATY WITH THE
BODBB JAPANESE
CLEVERLY DISCUSSED BY AN
ASTORIAN WHO STUDIES
THE QUESTIONS DEEPLY ,
ATftTHE
A. KE ROMAN
Coming Sunday Matinee
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THE DEVIL.
The Devil is certainly the most re
markable play of modern times
produced a few months ago in the
jt beautiful city of Vienna its success
! was so pronounced ana tne noveny
of the idea on which it is written
! startled all theatrical centres in
Europe. At once there was a dc-
Jimand in London for rights of the
play and as may be supposed Ameri-
T can managers were not found in the
rear of the numerous producers of
1 1 this entirely new and altogether ex
1 1 traordinary drama of domestic dev-
Hlment. The Devil is made as very
observant and a very entertaining
personage who ' dominates society
from the highest to the lowest rung
of the ladder. He rules people by
j suggestion and works his wickedness
in the gentlest of ways and people
sees lief's philosophy put in plain
words before their understandings
in such a way that the thinking and
the unthinking alike are devoured
with interest in the representation.
In some cities as many as five or six
companies have been producing as
many versions of this fascinating and
peculiar play but the version to be
produced by the Blunkall Company
at the Astoria Theatre next Sunday,
is regarded as the very best transla
tion from the original Hungarian
script. No expense will be spared
on this select production, and .the
Blunkall Company are forced to re
fuse the locat management's request
to repeat the 'bill, as the company is
booked for all the greater cities rf
the West before its return to New
York. Remember, only one oppor
tunity can be had to witness the rare
treat so we have no doubt that all
the theatre auditorium will be sold
out long before the company arrives
here.
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EJgnature of
The following thoughtful and in
teresting article, upon a vital sub
ject, is well worth the reading, not
only of Astorians, but of nil racihc
coasters; for the d.iy may come when
its suggestions will be painfully and
unavailingly; add, again, it may not.
Whatever shall eventuate, Mr.
Pohl's conclusions are always t)f
certain concern, because he is ft
thinker: ,;'
"There are, according the papers,
t'we articles in the new American
Japanese treaty; let us see what they
are:
"'Art. 2. Mutual disclaimer of any
aggressive design.'
"Could any nation do otherwise,
unless she were courting war?
"Art. 1. Mutual encouragement of
free and peaceful development of
Pacific,
"The American commerce has
practically disappeared from the IV
cilic and is superseded mostly by the
Japanese insofar as it was carried on
under the Stars and Stries,
"Art. .3 .Consists of two parts,
Part 1. Definition of policy as di
rected 'to the maiiitainance of the
status quo.'
"This is virtually a repetition of
Art. 2 with the addition to maintain
the same also against a third party.
"Part 2. Equal opportunity for
commerce and industry in China-
We have that guarantee in our di
rect treaty with China, can any one
see how the Japs could help us when
they are, themselves boycotted. Per
bans we can helo them break the
boycott.
"'Art. 4. ,Resolved that we re-
bect the territorial possessions tn
I "
the Pacific of each other.
"Already covered in Art. 2 and 3.
" 'Art. S. To support by all peace
ful means the independence and in
tegrity of China and equal commer
cial opportunity for all nations.'
"Would refer to Manchuria and
Korea where the same promises
have been repeatedly made and brok
en at every opportunity.
"'Art. 6. If the status quo or the
principle of equal opportunity is
threatened the two nations are to
consult, arrive at an agreement and
act together.
"This article is aimed at a third
power. Does any one know of any
such power? all want the open door
in cnina ano an are yicugcu i
maintainance. But should a third
power get into a controversy with
Japan about any of the present pos
sessions are we not by this treaty
bound to help Japan hold her pres
ent possessions; suppose Russia
should undertake to recapture Sag-
haljn for instance.
"'But you may say Japan must
also defend our possessions; let us
see. no one threatens them now, only
England, Germany, France or Japan
could threaten them.
"A war with either England, Ger
many or France even if it came
about over our Pacific Islands
would be fought out on the Atlantic;
if we were successful we would not
need Japan, if we were defeated docs
any one think we would get off so
cheap that the Islands of the Pacific
would pay the bill?
"Then what benefit is this secret
treaty with Japan?
"First It places Japan on easy
street, in this, her time of commer
cial stringency?
"Second It helps her credit by
making it appear that she is a peace- j
loving country at a time when her
credit is nearly exhausted.
"Third It gives her ample time to
complete her naval program and
more fully establish , her supremacy
in the Pacific.
"Fourth It eliminates any inter
ference on the part of, the United
States with present conditions in
Korea and Manchuria where there is
no equal opportunity.
"Fifth It has or at least may have
a bad effect on congress, giving those
who oppose a large navy a ; very
strong argument by saying why
should we spend'stjeh a large amount
for armament, everyone is our
friend.
"Sixth It will have the tendency
to concentrate what fleet we have
on the Atlantic coast.
"AH indications poinHo the prob
ability that before the Panama Canal
is finished the matter of the suprem
acy over the Pacific will have been
settled for a long time to' come,
think of the handicap with our fleet
located in the Atlantic.
"AU in all, the benefit to the
United States is slight, the benefit to
Japan cannot be mcaurcd; verily
the Japs are good diplomats as well
as fighters. 7 .' ,. - : :
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; DIRECTORS
Jacob Kamm W. F. McGregor C;c. CavkL
J. VV. Ladd S.S. Gordon y,r.'
Capital ........ $100,000.
Surplus .......... 25,000
Stockholders' Liability .100,000
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O. I. PETERSON, VUe-Prealdenl
J. W. GARNER. Atetmnt Ctafcier
FRANK PATTON, CiiMer
ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS - $232.0
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