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JHE WEATHER
Oregon and Washington Occa
sional rain; colder in the east por
tions. ASTORIA'S OWN YEAR.
Quiet as the times seem at this, the
opening of the year 1909, it is behev
ed to be peculiarly propitious for As
toria, Gatsop county, and the mouth
of the Columbia river; that the close
of 1909 will find this entire section
well launched, on a tide of actual and
significant work and business that
will contribute largely to a successful
future.
With the Harnman protects now
fairly defined west of Portland, in
this and Tillamook, counties; with the
electric system, in and out of this
city, brought to a pass where the
money itself is the next step toward"
the practical development of the en
terprise and every pledge at hand that
money is but waiting the final ac
tion of the City of Astoria, and that
action due in a few days; with the
assurance from headquarters that the
Astoria & Columbia River road is to
be heavily re-inforced as to road bed
and rails, and new and fine train ser
vice to be added; with plenty of mon
ey to advance the jetty work, and
plenty more for dredging the Colum
bia bar and making a fiat demonstra
tion in favor of this export and im
port avenue; with lumber beginning
to move Eastward again, all idle
plants opening up over the North
west and the Astoria mills already
running steadily and heavily and the
Hammond mills to be practically
doubled in efficency and output; with
the fisheries at a point where they
may be better handled through what
promises to be a banner season, it
really looks as if this is to be As
toria's Own yeaf.
TJpon such a predicate as this, it
does seem as though we might
rise to the promise and make the best
of it all. We certainly have no right
to grumble and grouch and, so far
as the popular sentiment can be as
certained, no disposition to. We seem
to be moving, for once, in an orbit of
our own, free from the hampering in
fluences that have impeded and dis
couraged us in the past; and it will
be a strange and unfortunate thing if
we do not turn these good things to
some account for city, county and
port!.
THE LIQUOR RE-ACTION.
No man, in rational touch with the
day and its manifestation, public and
private, will deny for an instant, that
there is a far-reaching re-action
against liquor and the part liquor
plays in the history of the hour. This
realization is not confined to the
ranks of the abstemious or those
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who do not drink at all; it is very
general, and includes the great host
of drinkers of all degrees. The con
viction seems to be gaining ground
that liquor lies behind, beneath and
in intimate relation to, the adverse
conditions of business and society
generally, and that it is fast under
mining every circumstance and bear
ing upon which we rely for existance,
happiness and progress, with the re
sult that genuine fear is at last alive,
and men who think at all, are cogni
zant of a national civic peril and
ready to meet the situation with any
(sacrifice that will remedy or save it-
Men of all classes, drinkers and
non-drinkers, are unifying daily on
all the expedients such as local op
tion, prohibition, temperance
move-1
ttients and restrictive policies; men
who for years have scoffed at them
all and laughed them down, are today
giving serious and wholesome atten
tion to the pleas, in all sections of
the country. There is no gainsaying
cause nor effect nor remedy, they are
plain and monumental facts and their
recognition is one of the healthful J
signs of the times; just as are the ap
paling ranges of crime, insanity, di
vorce, moral degeneracy, illiteracy
and the abnormal advance of the un
fit to place and power.
From every quarter of the land
comes the same story of awakening;
of salutary conviction and wide
spread effort at redemption. Astoria
will give her testimony in the start
ling premise before she is many days
older; and, with all such demonstra
tions, will be irresistable and conclu
sive- We must have some higher and
safer plane to move upon than liquor
inspires or begets, and it will be
found when the time comes!.
TAFT AND REVISION.
President-elect Taft is already up
against the thorns that beset the na
tional chief executive. He is pleading
against mis-representation .already,
on the score of his attitude with re
gard to tariff revision, although the
country was supposed to know from
his plain utterances on the vital sub
ject, that he stood for an early and
rational overhauling of the system,
and its quickest dispatch in the inter
ests of business all over the country
We believe that his proposal to put
the matter into the hands of a com
mission with wide and final powers;
uch as the inter-state Commerce
Commission is charged with, is the
safest and quickest way out of one
of the greatest and gravest muddle?
our people can invoke.
It will, to a large extent, remove
the issues from politics; it will take
out of the hands of Congress,
where it is invariably made the ba
?is for all manner of dealing and
double-dealing, and give that body
ALL THESE CAN BE HAD AT THE
F URN ITU RE GO.
more time for affairs that need atten-1
tion and dispatch; it will make the
question one of the business issues. ;
and put it where it may be discussed '
and disposed with cleanly and health- j
ful treatment; and give the people j
directly at interest a simpler and
readier method of placing thcii
claims and urging them with sonu
show of effect and justice.
The tendency of the age is to se
lect commissions in, the handling of
all great public issues and depart
mental schemes; and the tariff is en
titled to this same high and exclusive
arrangement. The sooner Mr. Taft's
idea is practically embodied in such a
creation, the sooner the country will
be freed from the incumbus and bane
of the tariff as it exists now, a Con
gressional prerogative, first and last
Of course it will have to go there for
final approval and constitutional ac
tion; but that is of small concern, if
the interminable preliminaries can be
taken care of elsewhere.
WING SHOTS.
Billy Sunday has been horse-whipped
by an alleged maniac, for the tac
it insult to womankind contained in
some of the blatant stuff he has got
ten off. We have very grave doubts
of the insanity of the man who ap
plied the lash; and none" whatever of
the incentive that moved him. A
black-guard in the pulpit is ever a fit
subject for such demonstrations as
this, and this particular black-guard
has no claim to exception that we
know of.
The "blind pig" seems to have
blundered into the wrong patch down
this way. The courts seem to have a
ring in his nose with a taut guiding
line attached to it.
When we have occasion to refer to
the grand jury, in the future, we can
'hardly fail to revert to the gentlemen
who officiated in that capacity at the
Spring term of the Circuit Court for
1909. This grand jury has certainly
left its impress on the public mind
and conscience; as much to the peace
and satisfaction of that public as to
the distinct credit of the G- J. itself.
A condition made possible by the
devoted work of District Attorney
E. B. Tongue and his assistant, Mr.
Brownell.
We have a fleet of nine ships now
in the lighthouse service here.
By the way, this is not the first
time the States of Oregon and Wash
ington have gotten together on the
salmon interests! They merged in
the winter of 1905 very conclusively
and satisfactorily, as is rightfully
suggested by Dr. Jay Tuttle, who was
a conspicuous member of
conference at that time.
the joint 1
. ; them, toegther, and not before, and
For a little and remote river town.K win ct bttter results whcn the
our neighbor, Cathlamet, can raise 0rics appointed know we are look
and maintain, about the coarsest, bit-1 ,n after the money we W and
terest. most determined, and disreou- lwhiit is accomplished with it, for cv-
table, public snarl, upon a private
predicate, we ever heard of. It
matches the Vendetta, and easily pa
rallels the "Molly Maguires."
Subscribe to the Morning Astorian jcomplished; and until we men, en
the local news; full Associated Press gaged in the salmon industry, take
reports. Delivered by carrier, 65 cents more interest in the business than
per month. Covers the entire lower
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FRANK SEUFERTlWRITES
A BREEZY LETTER
HE BELIEVES SALMON INTER
ESTS CAN BE MERCED IN
HARMONIOUS ACTION
THE DALLES. Or., Ftb. 26, 1909.
Editor Astorian:
Well after the twenty odd year of
storm I am confident wc will at least
have two seasons of peace on the
Columbia river among fishermen. Al
though the adopted law of the two
states is not what 1 would have made,
it is the best that could have been ac
complished at one time out of so
many waring interests. I am in hopes
a few years hence we will make a
few moves more in the right direction
of salmon protections and the care
of the young fish after we hatch
them- I am ready to co-operate with
Astoria at any time for what is good
and whenever they disregard 'men
who insist on agitating all issues I
am willing to work in the same har
ness for making the Columbia River
salmon industry greater than it ever
was, and do all in my power to ac
complish it in the shortest space of
time. I have a great many honest
friends below tide water and a few
foolish enemies, and, I am not the
least turned from what I think right
by a few shallow minded persons. I
am ready at any time to help arrange
a salmon organization to, which ev
ery man engaged on the Columbia
river or its tributaries can become a
member, whether he operates a gill
net, set net, seine, trap, purse seine,
or wheel, or hook and line, as long
as he 'is willing to advance the sal
mon industry, and is willing to pay
a small fee so that the members can
appoint, committees to see that the
money we receive from the taxpayers
of the state is well expended in build
ing hatcheries and the money that is
raised by license fees, is made to op
erate the hatcheries right, and we
receive the best rsults for the amount
expended; and, if we haven't money
enough to do it right, let us go down
in our pockets and furnish it for the
next few years and for once do it
right, and then see if the results will
not be far different than we have ac
complished in the past ten years since
we first passed the license and hatch
ery laws in 1898. As fishermen and
canncrs, we can not idly sit down af
ter having paid our annual license
fecs an'l trust to God for results; we
will get the results when we work for
cry man in the business today knows
that we have spent over three hun
dred thousand dollars of license and
tax payers money in this state, and he
would be ashamed if he had spent his
own, to report what little he had ac-
wc do we art not entitled to anything
better.
In all these years but one commit
tee visited Ontario Hatchery, once,
and the lack of proper management
brought forth so much comment that
the Master Fish Warden never did
extend any more invitations to a
body of practical men to see where
their money was being dumped.
$11.50
$4.50
I hope that in the near future (he
men engaged in this industry will I'm J
it a pleasure to see that their seed
supply is properly looked after and
the young fish are fed until such time
as we can expect the best results and
that you, the Astorian, will do the
very best in your power to accom
plish that, in which your city is most
interested, and the wealth that swims
to your door. And that your best citi
lens will aid your good work, not by
.fit a. ( i t
loousn taws out up-noiuing jut laws
made jointly by both states, to that
good will and free intercourse of
trade may be made profitable to all.
"Yours truly,
"F. A. SEUFERT"
JANITOR ARTISTIHNOS
RECOGNIZATION AT LAST
AFTER MANY YEARS CHICAGO
GERMAN RECEIVES LARGE
COMPENSATION.
CHICAGO, Feb. 27.-Acceptatice
"f a painting executed by Charles E.
Halbcrg of Chicago, once janitor in
a bank, by the Guttcnbera Art Mu
seum, one of the world's noted gal
leries, has come to the Chicago paint
er as the realization of his life dream.
Besides the gratification of an ambi
tion which has burned for 45 years,
Mr. Halbcrg has received the decis
ion of the museum with patriotic
zest, for he is a native of Gutten
berg. Necessity forced Halberg jo leave
his home and become a sailor. Twenty
years ago he left the sea, came to
Chicago and obtained employment
as janitor in the Austin State Bank.
Through the kindness of its officers,
he was permitted to pursue his art
studies in a room in the cellar. Some
of his paintings have been accepted
by the art institute. A letter has just
reached him from Axel Leonid, di
rector of the Guttenberg museum,
announcing that his painting "Atlan
tic" has been passed on favorably by
a jury of critics and would be added
to the permanent collection.
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Notice to the Public.
I desire to inform the public that
I will not be responsible .for any
debts contracted by the firm of Olsen
& Ecklund doing business at 110
Fifteenth street, unless same is au
thorized by me personally.
CHAS. ECKLUND.
Feb. 26, 1909.
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Coal at $7.00 per ton in your base
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