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ASTORIA, OUKOOX, TI'ENDAY MORNING, DECEMI5ER 1,
NO. 274
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JAPAN IS IN -THE
FOREFRONT
She tin Outlined an Ambitious I'ro
ijram fur the Near I'uturc.
II Kit EYES NOW ON HAWAII
Colonies Extended and Comment) Kx-
pandrd-Dlploiiuitlc Corps Largely
Increased.
New York Tribune.
Beyond all question Japan la getting
un. Hh hua not hem content with tak-
InK a l'f from th? book of American
and Kumptan progress. She nas taiten
the whole volume, and marked, read
and Inwardly digested It. and the diet
eema to agree with her. Never wa
there another nation that showed uch
growth In almost every direction In su
ahort a time, aa Japan ha In the last
doaen yrar. Never waa there one that
set before Itself a more ambltlou pro
gram than that whic h Japan now ha
before her. And with memory of her
recent achlevemenla fresh In mind, who
hall aay h la unequal to the task of
Ita fulfillment?
The resignation of Marqula Ito and
Count Mutu. and the acceaalon to pom
r of Count Okum. a few week ao.
was generally auppoaed to mean the
beglnnlnc of a otrong forela-n poky."
There are now unmlalakabla Indication
that that auppoaltlon will ba more than
verllled. but It la not necessarily to be
a flahllnc policy. On tho contrary.
Count Okuma, believe diplomacy to be
mora potent than war. He would not
have given up LeawTong and Core aa
meekly aa hla predeerasor did. Nel
ther would he hava gone to war with
Ruse I a and Germany and France to re
tiili. them. Hut he would have tem
porised; he would have maule a show
of Iron resolution; be would have at
tacked diplomatically the weak point
In hi opponents' oltl(in; he would. In
brl. f. have played a oolosal game of
"blurr." and In eventually yielding
would have contrived to ur for Jap
an am' eompeniiMtorf advantage.'
That I w hat (Ireece did. ten yeara at,
In the f.ice of all KuroM, and what
l!iw wuld do Japan could surely do!
Nr la that all. nor more than the be
Klmiltig. Jpuu must enlarse her Mir-di-r.
H.-r tide of emlKratlon I setting
strongly towanl the south. Formosa
Is alnyxly her. Next to It are the l'hll-IppliK-B.
and nothing eouhl be more
pruxr thun that she should ultimately
get them, and the Caroline. I'pon the
Hawaiian group still more she has fixed
her eye. Her people are going thither
at the rate of thousand every year,
and already form more than one-fourth
of the total population, vastly outnum
belng all other foreigner. "The growth
"of Japanese Inlluence has naturally
"made Japan an object of Jealousy to
"foreign countries, such as America.
"Portugal and Kngland, and there are
"persons In the present Hawaiian gov
"ernment who favor the Idea of a un
"Ion with the United 8ta,tea." Where
fore It Is expedient that a minister and
a consul be forthwith stationed at Hon
olulu to protect Japanese Interest and
to checkmate the designs of rival pow
ers, until such time as the little repub
lic, by force of It Japanese population.
Is absorbed Into the Umpire of the Ris
ing Sun.
tleyond all that, Japan must not be
content with mere piecemeal expansion
of her territory. She must extend her
colonies and her commerce to the utter
most eds of the earth. She must have
a minister at every capital atuf & con
sul at every port. Hraxll, for example,
I a land of vast possibilities. There Is
room there for thousands of Japanese,
and there I an opening for much trade
for which, Ideed, a commercial treaty
Is now being consummated. Slam Is a
bone of contention between England
and Frace. But Japanese Immigrants
are pouring In, a Japan-Slain Society
has been organised at Bangkok, a com
mercial treaty 1 being negotiated, and
Japan may yet llp In between France
and England and secure the prlac. So
elsewhere. "The expansive power of
"the Japanese power of the Japanese
"race must make Itself felt through
"North and South America and the In
"dies, through India, and through Poly
nesia, dominating everywhere the
"white Inhabitants and supplanting the
"black races."
Such I the ambition of the new Jap
anese government, ns set forth In Its
chief newspaper organ. Is It too great
ly valuting? AVII1 it overleap Itself
We shall see. What Japan has done
and Is doing are, at any rate, not calcu
lated to discourage faith In her ability
to do yet greater things. It Is no light
matter to have awakened a great na
tion from the sleep of ages and to have
started It on a new career of unmeus
urable possibilities.
THE PRESIDENTIAL TERM.
Philadelphia Times.
The board of mongers of the Trades
League of this city has taken a step In
the right direction by organising a
movement for an amendment to the
national constitution extending the
presidential term to six years and mak
ing the president Ineligible to succeed
himself. This we regard as one of
the most vital reforms that could be In-
tr'xlni'ed Into our system of national
government. When the constitution
was framed then- were only J.ODO.WI of
people unaltered along the Eastern
coast to be governed by It, and their In
terest but little diversified. Now the
republic extend from the Eastern to
the WcMorn sen, and from the North
ern lake to the Southern gulf, with a
diversity of Interests that could not
have been dreamed of by the father of
our free Institutions.
In early day a presidential contest
could not materially disturb the busi
ness Interest of the country, but now
a presidential year I Invariably a year
of partial paralysis In Industry, com
merce and trade because of Issue
Mlilch are to be determined by the jm-o-ple,
and one presidential election I not
rnoie than well oter until another be
gins. During at least one-half of the
time the ieople of this country are
more or lw disturbed by the election
of a president. Our national legislation
Is shaped chiefly or w holly to that end,
and It logically prevent Intelligent and
dispassionate IcgUlatlon because all
parties are looking solely to It effec t
upon the owning presidential contest.
There la every reason, therefore, why
the presidential term should be extend
ed to ls year. That would give the
country a much Heeded rest from po
litical atrlfe, and It would enable an
administration to give a thorough test j
of any policy it may adopt. The Mc
Klnley tariff waa overthrown before
It operations were visible to the peo
ple, and the Wilson tariff has been ap
parently overthrown without opportu
nity to test Its wisdom under ordinary
buslnesa conditions. It would have been
much better If the McKlnley tariff had
been given four years for a thorough
test of It benefit and defects, and cer-
i talnly It would have been much better
could the Wilson bill have had two
year more under favorable business
conditions to demonstrate wherein it I
right and wherein It la wrong.
Another Important feature of the pro
posed amendment of the constitution Is
the Ineligibility of the president to uc-
I ceed himself. For twenty-four year no
'president of the I'oUed State has been
elected as his own successor. Grant de
! sired a third term, but failed to receive
It. Hayes would have been gla1 to
succeed himself, but he had lost favor
! with his parly. Avitur made an earnest
struggle for a nisrunation to. succeed
' himself, but was defeated In the natlcn
ial convention by Blaine. Cleveland was
, renominated in 1KK0 and defeated, and
j Harrison was renominated in 1SS2 and
also defeated.
j When a president is a candidate for
re-election the fact 'or his candidacy
amounts to a command to the more
j than lW.OOO federal ofllclals throughout
the country to make battle for hla
cause, and It is undisputed that In some
Instances the power of the government
has been wielded exhaustively to aid
the re-election of a president. With the
president Ineligible to succeed himself,
there would be no temptation for the
prostitution of the patronage of the gov-
ernmctit to advance his Individual In
terests, and such an amendment to the
constitution would certainly be promo
tive of a disinterested and. patriotic dls
charge of the duties of the highest
civil trust of the world.
We heartily Join the Trade League
of this city In Its organised movement
for this Important amendment to the
national constitution. Every considera
tion of sound public policy and of busi
ness tranquility clearly indicates flie
w isdom of such an amendment to the
fundamental law of the republic.
JOLLY SKATERS.
Sportsmen Have a Good Time On the
Lakes at Clatsop Plains.
Sunday morning a large number of
representative athletes of the city took
advantage of the rare cold weather,
boarded the train for Clatsop Plains,
and Indulged In an old-fashioned skat-
jlng frolic. Skates of all kinds and
fashions were seen dangling irom me
arras of the excursionists, Dutch
skates, with turn-up toes, "rockers,"
club skates of every variety and make,
furnished the means of skimming over
the frosen lakes.
Games of at) kinds were played upon
the Ice. hockey, shinny, football, etc.,
engaged the attention of the skaters.
In their seal they lost sight of the fact
that It was the first exercise of the
kind they hod Indulged in for years,
and as a consequence many a sore man
walked the streets yesterday. Ross
Clinton met with a slight accident, fall
ing through a weak place In the Ice,
and another man fell so hard as to
render him unconslous for a short time;
but barring these slight accidents the
day passed off pleasantly, and all
I agreed that they had had a good time.
Among the party was Captain Pyott,
of the Hawkadale.
ALL WIRES DOWN.
The severe storm of yesterday broke
down both telegraph lines east of Oak
Point so that this morning no press dls-
j patches will appear. The storm was
j unprecedented In severity and extent,
land both companies had large gangs
out all day yesterday making efforts to
'.ksli.a nAnnu,llAnfl T f In f.TnertMt t l t
the wires will be up some time today.
While the czar was iff Paris he re
ceived 90,000 telegrams, aggregating
1,350,000 words. '
THE PROBLEM
CONFRONTING US
What Is Necessary to Make ThinrjsGo
in Astoria and Clatsop,
RAILROAD AN ASSURED FACT
And Will Take Care of Itself Internal
Improvements Needed Fo.torles,
Seawall, Hoads and Parks.
Mr. A. B. Hammond, It Is asserted
by those who are supposed to be posted
concerning his movements, will arrive
In Astoria during the first half of De-
cernber. Those who have any questions
to ak about the railroad, Ita future And we can estimate the Interest cre
plans. Its backers. Its transcontinental ated by this convention when we know
connections, end Its everything else,
will then have an opportunity to
view the only man who know defi
nitely what Is In store for the road In
the future. It ha been asserted within
the past few days that It was Impossi
ble for Astorlana to dispose of property
or do anything towards the advance
ment of the town until every detail of
the future plans of the road were made
public. That this Is a fallacy will ap-
pear to every thinking man. The ex
traordinarily heavy rail now stacked
up at Flavel ready to lay In the track,
the unusually strong trestllng 'and
bridge work already completed through
the city water front, the heavy grading, jof the National W. C. T. U., was a na
tunnellng and rip-rapping on the first ; tive teacher In Armenia. Her father
ten mile of the road, the character of I a native preacher, her brother a
the work being done now at Rainier
and other point on the line, the solid
Improvements made at Warren ton and j
Flavel, the re-laying of the old Seaside :
track, fencing, building- sidetracks etc-. !
the laying out of the ground for the
shops, and every other step taken by
the engineers of the company, all go
to show that the line is being construct-,
ed for the heaviest traffic and In
manner superior to any other railroad American mlslonarlea. while her yuung
on the coast. i er sister was taken and placed in a
All these facta taken together with
the unbounded resources of this port.
and the surrounding country, must con-
vlnce not only, every resident in. thei.mlght be sent to them, not to exterml-
dlRtrlct, but every foreigner vUltlng
here that there Is but one future for,
the A. and C. R. R. R. From the very i
nature of things It cannot help but be
a terminal for several. If not all the
great transcontinental railroads. What
does It matter whether John Smith, Jim
Jones. Huntington, Vanderbilt. Russell
Sae, Northern Pacific, Southern Poci-
flc, or any other Pachlc, Is back of the
enterprise? It is sufficient that the
road Is being built In the most sub- d""1 orphans; give his wealth as a
stantial manner known to the art of j 8P" to us, thy faithful."
railroad building in this tw entieth ' At the conclusion of Miss Kirchovan's
century. It Is sufficient to know that, , a1lres Mi8S w'llar1 8ald: "Nw be
lt opens the gate to all the great i 'ore- under such terrible persecution,
enterprises and commercial business i dld 1 ever hear one 80 nearly express
this port could possibly hope for. If ' the "P'rtt of the Master, 'Father, for
all the cards in the deal w ere thrown ! Rive them, for they know not what
down on the table, and everyone could j they do. "
read the exact conditions of every fu- j A collection of one thousand dollars
ture stage of development of the road j ' then taken up to be sent by the
and the city. It would not be possible i National W. C. T. U. to the aid of thts
to have and speculative advancement In 1 afflicted people.
properties or enterprises. It is a well j !t may be of Interest to state that
known fact substantiated by history i the State W. C. T. U.'s of Maine and
within the past decode, that all of the I Massachusetts not only furnished the
phenomenal growths of terminal cities i:0.000 bonds required by our govern
and ports, have been made during this ; ment before the -rmenian refugees
stajje of construction. Now Is the great : sent over by Miss Wlllard could be
opportunity In Astoria, and while no j landed, but these unions also provided
one looks for or desires a mushroom clothes and homes for two hundred
growth, yet there Is an opportunity for jof them. The Salvation Army took
a solid Improvement In both commercial . charge of the rest.
and Industrial lines during the coming
eighteen months.
The Inauguration at home of one or
two companies for the building and op
eration of new factories, and the engag
ing on the part of the city in needed
public works, such as the construction
of the seawall, enlargement of the har
bor above the city, the building of parks
and boulevards, will do more than any
thing else to foster and stimulate the
desired growth of the city. The rail
road will take care of Itself. Its con
nections are assured; It can mean noth
ing else to a reasonable man other than
a transcontinental terminus. Let the
people take hold of a few local prop
ositions and see how quick the tide will
turn. It will turn anyway, but present
owners and businescs men may be un
der the sod unless, they do something
for themselves.
The above were the sentiments ex-
pressd yesterday by a well posted busi
ness man.
W. C. T. U.
National Convention Held In St. Louis
Last Week.1
Astoria, November 30. (To the Ed
itor.) I have Just returned from
the W. C. T. U. National Conven
tion at St. Louis. I hoped while
at the convention to be able to furnish
your readers with an account of this
great convention, as seen by the eyes
of an Astorlan, but aa I am a member
of the National Executive Committee,
which holds sessions In the Interim of
the convention, as well as the whole
day after convention. It was imjiossible
to get time to send any communication
to the paper.
Twelve years ago I attended a Na
tional W. C. T. U. convention at St.
Louis. It was the famous convention
at which the Woman's Christian Tem
perance Union, after a heated debate.
declared that Its sympathies and pray
ers would be given only to that party,
by whatever name called, that would
in Its platform give us the best expres
sion of prohibition sentiment, and most
surely protect our homes. Before that
convention met at St. Louis only one
church would open Us doors to tha con
vention, and that church, to Its honor,
be It said, was the First United Pres
byterian. ' At our last convention, held
two Week ago, and where the same
political resolution was unanimously
adopted, one hundred and seventeen
churches of every denomination willing
ly opened their doors, and two Sab
baths ago, from one hundred and sev
enteen pulpits, woman spoke the Gos
pel truth In It relation to forty dif
ferent departments of work of the W.
C. T. V. The convention waa held In the
great music hall of 8t Louis, which
will seat four thousand people, reserved
, seats being sold at one dollar apiece.
that every evening every seat In the
Inter-'building was occupied, while "at every
day session two thousand people were
present. Sunday afternoon was de
voted to the Armenian cause, and there
waa not even standing room left In
the building. It Is known to most peo
ple how warmly Mis Wlllard and Lady
Henry Somerset, the president of the
English W. C. T. V., has espoused the
cause of these persecuted Christian.
Two escaped Armenians were at this
Sunday meeting In St. Louis man
and woman each dressed In the
tasteful native Armenian costume. Re
becca Korc boron, who I under the care
professor In one of the Christian col-
leges. Because her father would not
testify to a falsehood, viz., that the
massacre of the Christians was the re-
suit of a rebellion on the part of the
Armenian themselves. Rev. Kirchovian
; -s Imprisoned. Professor Klrchovan
as Imprisoned. Rebecca Klrchovan
barely escaped w 1th her life, being
aih'ped to escape to America by some
Turkish harem. Yet Rebecca Klrcho-
van's whole plea at St Louis was for
the Mohammedan that mlstonaries
: nate them, but to save' their souls.
And with uplifted hands and wet eyes
8ne pledged herself that If her life were
, prolonged It would be devoted to the
larr"g UI "r'i vospei , ,ne
Turks. "It is their religion that is at
fault." he said. "What would you ex-
P' ot followers of Mahomet when
'eaeh day they pray in their mosques
i "Oh, Allah, curse the Christian; let
. hls nme be desolate; make his chil-
A prominent business man remarked
as he went out of the convention:
"Well, I am a thorough, convert to the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
It's evidently the broadest and most
active and effective Christian organisa
tion in America today, for it fearlessly
espouses every moral reform."
I tried hard to secure the next Na
tional Convention for Oregon. I pre
sented an Invitation from Governor
Lord, the Portland Chamber of Com
merce, city council, Ministerial Associa
tion and local W. C. T. U., and the
State W. C. T. U., but several of our
states presented equally strong Invi
tations, and as the triennial conven
tion of the world's W. C. T. U. will be
held in Toronto, Canada, immediately
preceding our national convention, I
fear the general officers will decide
on Portland, Maine, for the next gen
eral convention.
NARCISSA W. KINNEY.
On account of the storms and Ice In
the river, the steamer Telephone laid
over for her return trip to Portland un
til this morning. It was supposed the
Potter would do the same thing In
Portland If she succeeded In reaching
that port.
The late Col. Walter Raleigh Gilbert,
chief constable of Cornwall, England,
was a descendant of Sir Humphrey
Gllbert.
Highest of all in Leavening Power. -Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
I i WW )l Ml I i U IT'S
ABSOLUTELY PURE
OREGON'S CREAT
STORM OF ICE
Columbia Mocked by Solid Cakes of
lee, Which Impede Navigation.
TELEGRAPH LINES LAID LOW
City Street Like a Mirror Rain Final
ly Melts the Ice and Travel Is
Resumed.
Oregon baa had a regulation lea
storm.
Old timers say that It has been the
roost sever storm of the kind In twenty
years. The Columbia river was blocked
with Ice so aa to Interfere with naviga
tion. The Willamette waa not frosen
over, aa was reported, hut the entire
trouble seems to have come from the
Upper Columbia, the Ice floating dowa
the river in huge cakes and almost com
pletely blocking the river.
Early yesterday morning In Astoria
and Clatsop county, the Ice storm had
assumed alarming proportions Tree
were encased with a heavy coating and
the Ufa of fruit very much endangered.
All during the night sleet and rain felt
Incessantly. The roads and streets
were turned Into sheets of glass, tha
big trees In the Nenalem and Wallualci
valleys loomed up Jn the early dawa
like large white ghosts, and early trav
eler reported that they had seen noth
ing like It for years. Mr. Charles Gutt
liume, who came In from the Walluakl
yesterday, stated that the storm had
surpassed all of bis experience. Th
Clatskanie has been frosen over for
weeks, as well aa other smaller streama.
Early In the morning both Telegraph,
lines were rendered useless, doubtless
the weight of ice having broken th
wires. Both lines had communication
aa far East as Oak Point, but up to
midnight could get no connection with
Portland, although gangs of men were
working all day to secure connection oa
both lines. By noon In the city the
tee and rain had become slush, and
navigation rendered more favorable.
The rler boats experienced a great
deal of difllculty, the Ice in the river
extending- as far west as Mount Coffin.
The steamer Telephone did not arrive
until after 7 o'clock, and luld over until
this morning before making the attempt
to return up river. On her way down
she (as.-ted the Potter near Oak Point
and It is thought that the latter boat
would also wait over before coming
down he river.
Twenty-three years ago a similar Ice
storm occurred, and as late as eight
years ago, the historians say, the Col
umbia river was frozen over, even a""
low down as Tongue Point From all
these facta it is inferred that the pres
ent winter will be a short sharp one.
So far as could be learned last night
the Indications In Portland were that
present conditions would continue, m
far as rains and storms are concerned
Local conditions indicate a continuation
of storms, with perhaps somewhat
warmer weather.
OLD-TIME JOURNALISM.
Old-time Journalism In England must
have been picturesque. The "Church
Times" of London reprints the follow
ing taken from the Dally Mercury
of July 12, 1S04: "An enormous whale
Is said to have been stranded off Flam
borough Head In the year 1259, In a
state of dreadful exhaustion, with a
church steeple sticking out of Its mouth.
On cutting up the sacrelegious mon
ster, which could not be performed so
quickly as to prevent his convulsions
from setting all the bells a-rlnging.
the whole congregation were found in
the body of the church enclosed In the
stomach of the leviathan In the very
act of singing psalms, and the person In
the vestry taking a glass of wine be
fore sermon."
ON THE TRAIL TO MISSOURL
From the Lewlston Leader.
A stockman from Yakima, Washing
ton, passed through Lewlston, Idaho,
the other day, on the trail to Missouri
with 200 head of horses. In the com
pany were husband and wife, and the
lady will make the Journey over the
mountains and across the continent on
horseback. They have only begun the
Journey, but the few days have been
somewhat eventful. The horses are
wild, and they stampeded on Snake
river, before reaching this city, and
fourteen of the number went over a
200-foot precipice and were crushed te
a pulp by contact with rocks In the fait
Mr. Al Slefeldt states that he has not
resigned as candidate for councilman
from the Third ward, but will run for
that position as an Independent candl-
I date regardless of politics or party affl-
nations.