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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06
THE QUESTIONS.

/. What is the distinction between a
shrub and a tree?
2. Does knitting the brows assist the
process Of thinking?
8. What is the origin Of the phrase
"At Skies and Sevens?"
4. Are there any means Of rendering
gunpowder non explosive without wet
ting it?
Answers must be in by Saturday noon.
Please send full name, school and class
you belong to.
In response to numerous requests we take
pleasure in inviting all pupils of private schools
to enter this competition every week.
The age of the contestant MUST be stated.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06

Thomas Breton was buried at /
o'clock yesterday aftei noon from
Pohl's undertaking parlors- The inter-
ment was made at Greenwood.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06

The opinions of correspondents are
their own. No communication appear
ing in this column necessarily voices the
belief of the paper itself.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06

Wing Lee has just received q. ! ull lire
of Japanese curiosities and far ic. goods.
Will sell at cost. 529 Third ST re 1t.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06

The Rescue Temperance Club netted
over $50 from its entertainment on
Tuesday night.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06

Columbia Tender Comp amy No. 8,
will give a bal April Sth, 1t Columbia
cannery. All invited.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06
ABOUT THE CITY.

The monthly meeting Of the Y. NJ,
C. A. is to be held tonight.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06

E.. w. Kuykendall, the undertake r, en-
balmer and funeral director, has his par
lors in the WEIGH block, No. 71S, Water
street. Call up telephone Nc. 7.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06

Parties visiting in Portlar ID can get The
Daily Historian at Handley &c Haas news
stand, $50 First street.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06

Do not be deceived with ch cap. pictures,
but get your work done a I G rows gallery
and you will not regret II.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06

RYAN & Co. 537, Third street, have
lust received a full line of 1893 patterns
in wall paper, and comprising all the
latest designs and shades, at the low
est nrices. Call and e them.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06

l.. p. Fisher, newspaper adv ertising
agent, q Merchants Exchange, Sa n Fran
cisco, is our authorized agent. Tn Is paper
is kept on file at his office.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06

Call at the Albatross FL sh Market for
fresh fish daily.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06

II you want some extra f1ne photos
Mooers' Is the place to get them.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06

Remember the Austin Hoase at the Sea-
sid Is open the year around
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06

See Swope & Slater about your spring
work. They are the swiftest, cheapest
and best paperhangers and decorators
on the coast.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-04-06

Swope & Slater will be pleased to
furnish estimates on interior decora-
ton to all who call or address 459
Fourth street.
The morning call., 1893-11-13
THE NEWSPAPER.
Readers Protest Against Indecencies
and Wish for Reform.

Rev. E. McClish of Grace Methodist
Episcopal Church took his text from Phil
ippians iv:8: "Whatsoever things are
true, whatsoever things are honorable,
whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely. whatsoever things are
Of good report; if there be any virtue, and
if there be any praise. think on the Sc
things"
Mr.. McClish Spoke as follows: 'Tn-
stead of think Oh these things let the text
read. publish these things, and we have
in this epistle to the Philippians bit of
advice which, ii needed by the editors of
our great daily newspapers would
make their columns welcome to the ten
der and sacred precincts of the we'll
ordered house.
"The recent petitions signed by the
women of our city, the guardians of the
sacred sanctites of childhood and home,
show that these columns are not now well
come. They are endured as necessities.
But this expression from the women of
San Francisco is not a local spasm in
duced by few influential leaders. 1t is
the legitimate product of the American
home. not against the newspaper that en-
ters its portal, but against the insidious
poison it carries in ito folds.i like conta-
The morning call., 1893-11-13
BADLY DEMORALlZED.
News Served by the DEVILS Agents
in an Elaborate Manner.

At Westminster Presbyterian Church
Rev. John Q. Adams spoke in part as fol-
lows:
e In the agitation for the publication and
elevation of our daily press every decent
citizen, whatever his creed or his politics,
ought to unite. Ii is movement for the
: preservation and purity of our family and
SOCIAL life, and means much for the future
. OF city ana State. or It's necessity there
can De but one opinion. / am glad that
the ladies' are leading in the agitation, for
u means victory in the end, however long
1t 10 ay be delayed.
IN discussing this subject two difficult
TIES present themselves. In the first place
we Calllornlans are specially sensitive 10
CRITICISM, even when it comes from cUr
own ranks. There is some reason for This
Ine peop!e OIL this State have achieved SO
n1ucn ana nave often been so uniustly
crltlclzed That they are naturally belligerent
when subjected to it. But sensitiyeness
ougnt not 10 ollnd US to facts. Then on
the other hand, the editors. when criti-
: clZen. often fall back on some snch state
ment as this: See what fools onr critics
make OF themselves. They never ran q
paper and know nothing about il. A daiIv
paper Is not run on sentiment hnt Tor
money; not to teach the Ten Commend.
ments. but to give the news. We are onIv
meeting the demands of the people, There
10 measure Of truth here. But even
The morning call., 1893-11-13
HEALTHFUL AGITATION
Always Productive of Good Results
if Properly Carried On.

Rev. H. II. Wikoff Of the Fourth Con-
gregational Church took for his text the
latter part of the ninth verse of Romans,
18th chapter: "Abhor that which is evil,
cleave to that which is good" After speak
ing of the wide dissemination of news by
the daily papers, and their value as educa-
tors Mr.. Wikoff said:
While the pulpit touches its hundreds
furnishing them with the highest themes.
the newspapers appeal to the thousands
and hundreds of thousands, aiming osten-
sibly to touch upon all sides of daily life.
No wonder it has power.
This leaGs to the second fact that such
q power in the community ought to be for
good. And. indeed, for society if that
which enters so many houses should be a
curse rather than a blessing. The news
paper on the table should be a stlmulant
to higher citizenship and thus benefit to
the community.
Is it so? Consider the unobjectionable
news it brings-the dcings of the whole
civilized world. Consider the reports of
the market, the letters of travel, descrip-
tiOns of noted places and famous men. All
this and more, rightly included within
the daily press, is positively helpful; and
we ought. in the language of our text. to
cleaye TO that which is good. Let us be
just, and give credit to the newspaper for
that within its columns which is truly for
the upbuilding of society In intelligence,
In thrift. In social honesty and morality.
But we must not blind our eyes TO the
evils on the other hand. AS members of
the body polite, interested in the public
welfare; as parents of families dev0i ed to
our children, and as men and women OF the
kingdom, anxious for its consumma ton.
we must look the matter in the face, and
in the name of all that is pure aud good
abhor that which is evil.
Grant the influence, and the beneficial
influences, and the duty becomes the more
imperative of discovering any possible
wrong and with all our moral and religious
intensity abhoriDg that which is evil.
Now is there anything to abbor in the
modern daily newspaper? Granting that
there may be- exceptions, we note the adj
yertising OF anything the ostensible pur-
pose of which is demoraliZing. the giving
in detail for a prurient curiosity, the scan
dals of modern society, the publication as
news of the downfall of any one high In
religious life and work, the undue prom.
inence given to things which appeal only
to the lower man. Our boys magnify John
Sullivan and Peter Jackson because of the
prominence given them in the daily press,
whereas, il silence were maintained or
mention made only to condemn, the grow
ing generation could not but look upon
such men and their doings In way far
different than at present.
Again we believe the press falls in CIV
ing so little of Its space to the doings of
religious bodies, In this respect, however,
there is an Improvement, but there is
room for still further advance.
But what can we do? Is anything poe
The morning call., 1893-11-13
FROM THE PULPIT.
The Movement for Clean
Newspapers.
MINISTER'S LEND THEIR AID.
Thoroughly Considered from All
Points.
SOME WITHOUT MORAL SENSE
Vigorous Denunciations of News
papers Which Pander to the
Vilest Human Passions.
ONE WITHOUT MORAL SENSE

The crusade inaugurated by the ladies
of TINS city few weeks ago. having for its
object the publication of the daily press.
received substantial encouragement yes
terdsy from pastors of many denomina-
lions. No modern crusade has ever had a
more vigorous support than has been &C
corded to the present movement
Ministers grew eloquent over the theme
and urged upon their flo ks the necessities
for patroniZing clean newspapers-clean
not alone in their news columns, but like
wise in their advertising columns. The
sermons all show that the value of news
paper as an educator is thoroughly under
stood and appreciated. and that deep in
terest is being taken in insisting upon
having them conducted on a high moral
plane.
Following will be found digest of the
= various sermons.
The morning call., 1893-11-13

For example, the reports of church con-
ventions, missionary assemblies and such
meetings, which are always given at
length. Every doctrine and question of
religious interest is discussed and reviewed
with ability and scattered broadcast
through the land.
"These various points must be kept in
mind when we make our structures on the
press
'As for sensational journalism, it is ap-
parent that any Indictment under this
he is also direct indictment of the pub
lie that reads the condemned articles.
IL there were no demand there would
be no supply.
1.-THE following points are counts in this
indictment of sensationalism: First, it de-
braves the public taste; second, 1t de-
braves the public morals; third, it iDJnreS
by It's unnecessary ampification OF horrId
details; fourth, 1t perverts the truth of
political reports to subserve personal and
party ends; fifth, it invades rivate life
and lntrudes itself into personal affairs {;
sixth. Its society column creates IN the
minds of young people an undeslrab BILE
passion for prominence and publicity in
the matter of dress and social functions.
Now for the remedy. 1t is this: Stop
the demand for such matter.
The DrOprletors of sensational papers
run their sheets along their Objectionable
that spicy stories command ready sale.
NOW If there were no demand the sup
ply must Of necessity fall off at once.
People who denounce the sensational
papers should neither buy them nor ad-
vertiSe in their columns"
At the First Unversalist Church. Rev.
s. CO. denough's topic was Purity of the
Press; Who Is RespOnsible?"
Rev. j. b. Eddie, at the Fourth Congre-
gational Church. discussed the Influence
Of the Newspaper on Our Homes and
Social Life"
Rev. Campbell Coyls spoke on the
Purity of the Press" at the Centennial
Presbyterian Church.
At the First Congregational Church
Rev. W. RAIDERS evening subject was,
''Our Local Newspapers"
Rev. c. w. Wendte preached at the First
Unitarian Church On Good Morals and
the Newspapers"
Rev. c. II. Hobart, at the First Baptist
Church, spoke on THE Press-Its Power
and Purity"
At the Eighth-avenue NJ. E. Church DR..
S. j. Carroll preached on "The Daily
Newspaper as an Influence for Evil"
The morning call., 1893-11-13
COUNTRY PAPERS FAVORED.
Portland and Los Angeles Papers
Cleaner Than Our Local DaiIies.


At the Olivet Congregational Church
Rev. II. Hammond Cole took for his text
Pail. IVES. FINALLY, brethren. whatsoever
things are true, whatsoever things are
honest whatsoever things are just. what
sOever things are pure, whatsoever things
are lovely, whatsoever things are of good
report; if there be any virtue, and if there
be any praise, think on these things"
After.expressing his hearty sympathy with
che present movement, the speaker said:
There was no question about the great
power of the press for good, If you took
into account all the weekly and monthly
issues. and it was we'll that the object was
definitely stated to be the reformation of
the daily press.
while there were nota BILE exceptions,
the lamentable fact remained that alto
gether too many of the city dailies were
given to the distortion and suppression of
the truth, especially in the case of party
jOurD ais that there is generally a spirit of
irreverenee and even burlesoue as TO the
holy things of God; that the daily press is
doing incalculable harm to the gospel and
all humanity bv its persistent attempts to
break down the Sabbath, both by its teach
ing and example, and, worse than all, the
newspapers are demOralizing the public.
corrupting the youth and invading the
puLhbS VI tho ny LILO
given to nameless crimes and immortality.
Attention was called to the country
papers as being better than the city
papers. and those north and south of US
at Portland and Los Angeles-as being
better than those of San Francisco. AS to
the blame of this condition of affairs the
proDriet0rs and managers of the great
dailies are personally responsible. They
decide the policy and exercise the choice
and make the selection of what thew will
use as news and how il shall be presented.
If they yield to the greed of gain they are
false TO the greatest of opportunities to
make a righteous public sentiment.
The people are also to blame in submit
ting to be thus treated and imposed upon,
for in this country, more than in any
other, the people at the last are re-
spOnsible.
The remedies within our reach are first
to unite in every common effort such as
this, and second by our individual protest
on every practical occasion and patronizing
only the cleanest and most deserving of
than all
The morning call., 1893-11-13
EDUCATING EDITORS.
Schools of Refined Journalism Sug-
geSted to Purify the Press.

SeSIeQ 10 FurlIy the PreSS.
Rev. w. Fl. Moreland of st. Luke's
Church took his text from Revelations
vii:10:
Now is come salvation, and strength.
and the kingdom of our God. and the
accuser OF our brethren is cast out"
He said: The devil is the accuser of God
and Of men. All the false and foul ideas
which men have fastened to the character
of God have been suggested by satan.
| have been asked to speak of the faults
Of the newspapers. The newspaper re-
fleets society. 1t axes its tone from men
and women. To get at the root of the
trouble we must cure the same faults in
ourselves. When they pass out of the
spher Q Of private life. and we see them in
their horror in the public prin t-columns
of suspicion, rumor. scandal, gossip and
personal attack-we cry out against their
wickednesS. The way TO effect reform
in the newspapers is to be gin with our
selves. Begin this instant. Resolve never
to repea an uncharitable story about an
other. although you know it to be true.
Mr.. Moreland said the fortunes of the
Inquisi ton were less than the sufferiDgs
of sensitive people, who were prosecuted
possibility of stopping the consequences
of q SANDER, and recommended each one,
before reporting an evil story, to ask these
questions: Is it true? Will it do good to
tell it? Am [ called on to speak of it?
The daily paper is mighty engine OF
power. II is the educator of the masses
1t goes into the hands of the million. 1t
is indispensable in the homes of every one
of us. 1t is the safeguard of. popular
liberty. Our civilization would be less
glorious without it, The post of editor
and proprietor is so honorable and so re-
Sponsibe that men should be trained for
it. as they are for the priesthood. with the
utmost pains and reverence. Yale and
Harvard and Stanford and Berkeley will
in time have their schools of journalism.
The respectful petition for certain re-
forms in the newspaper which the women
of California have made is sign of the
growing healthiness of public sentiment.
1t may he treated with contempt now, but
l. cannot be ignored for long. In tue
midst of the magnificent civilization of
this nineteenth century and in this free
and favored country. with the kingdom of
light advancing on every side, 1t is reason
able to expect our newspapers. with their
splendid resources, to feed the public
mind on better food than murders and d.
vorces. Let the enormity OF these evils
lead US to movement against satan, all
along the line. beginning with ourselves.
This city is Gods; claim 1t for Co.."
The morning call., 1893-11-13
THE PURITY OF THE PRESS.

an outsider need not be wholly ignorant Of
certain dangerous tendencies and condi-
lions. be knows that news is not mere Nv
the devils business, and when the lat Ter
must be reported it need not be served by
the devils agents In the most elaborate and
devilish manner. He knows also that the
excuse that the people demand such things
is the Plea Of the coward and the sbirk,
or else of immortality. The daily papers
which thus panders TO the haunts of vice
and the destroyers of society is multiply
Ing and perpel uating that vice. 1t not
onl ~ meets certain demand, but it creates
further demand.
ls there to be no conscience in this ma T.
ter? Must bank officials aud other bust
ness men TO be held to strict integrity,
whole-soulad. and obedience to the moral
law, while newspaper editors and prOprle-
tors are excused from any positive effort
to promote such PRINCIPLES and 10 frown
down their oDpoaites ?" "ATe
the many thousands of readers among de-
cent people to be shown no consideration
Are parents to be compelled to keep the
daily papers rom their children or eXer-
else rigid censorship over them, knowing
well that moral filth. illustrated and de-
scribed in attractive forms, contain mates
and curses she child who touches it?
Even rs an outsider, with some kD0wl-
edge OF newspapers In most OF our great
cities, do not hesitate to say that we have
the worst lot of daily papers of any city
papers which. as rule, pay the least re-
gard to what is pure and ennobling.
Every great city has some such papers, but
we are afflicted with an almost entire de-
m0raliZatlOn in this direction. Its effects
upon our municipal life are painfully ap-
parent
IN spite OF this fact our children in the
public schools are urged to read the daily
papers. We need not search long to find
the fruit of such poisonous food.
The judgment of many others who care
little for the pulpit or the gospel as such.
confirms these statements and shows they
are not exaggerated.
what is to be done?' you ask. Agi-
tate, aRitate, agitate! Stir up and crys-
taliZe public opinion. Surely there is
enough of decency in this State, if it be
aroused and guided, to compel editors and
publishers 60 respect and fear it. LIE it be
proclaimed upon the housetOps that this
thing must stop. The Ten Command
ments must have something to do with
politics, distinguished Senator to the
contrary. and they must also have to do
with :he daily press. Otherwise ruined
homes, debauched society and totterine
State will soon proclaim the irreverst
bleness of moral law and the certainty ci
a coming Judgment"
The morning call., 1893-11-13
FROM OAKLAND PULPITS.
The Wave of Press Reform Roll:
Over That City,

Inc wave Vi Press KcIOTm NOllS
Over That City.
Nearly half the clergymen of Oakland
spoke on the subject of press purity yester-
day.
Rev. Robert F. Coyle, DID,, preached to
a large congregation at the First Presby-
terrain Church Yesterday morning on Sen
sational Journalism"
His text was Acts, xvii 81: For the
Athenians and all the strangers which are
there spend their tine in nothing else than
either to tell or hear some new thing"
The doctor opened his sermon by OBJ
serving that in the discussion of such a
matter as this much evil might be wrought
by indiscriminate praise on the one hand
or indiscriminate condemnation on the
other. There are good and bad papers and
one must distinguish between them.
or the press 10 general, DIR. Coyle said,
"lts most prominent features make it an
ally Of religion and morality.
"First-It lays iniquity bare. This is in
itself great boon, for sin thrives bes
under cover. Let mans evil deeds be
exposed, let the light of publicity in on
peril. Consequently by their exposes the
newspapers contribute greatly to the good
of society.
'Second-A fear OF exposure tends to
restrain a man from evil practices, for if
certain that his bad deed will come out he
will hesitate before committing it.
''Third--The newspapers awaken thought
and discussion. Sin reaDs its richest har-
vest out of the soil that has been uncut
and undisturbed by the plowshare of in
tellectual activity. 1t opens the eyes of
the people. 1t educates them. 1t sets
them to talking of matters of local and ma
tional interest and so stimulates thought
1t broadens knowledge and awakens a de-
sire for better things.
"Fourth-NewspaDers disseminate vast
deal Of religious truth ana knowledge.
The morning call., 1893-11-13

gion in royal robe. men of in Intelligence
everywhere" says the last number of he
Forum. "are profoundly dissatisfied wit b
the American daily newspaper; they be-
lleve it to be both vulgar and dishonest.
and they find that these qualities have
grown increasingly prominent OF recent
years. They put up with it. for the news
paper is one of the necessaries OF life, but
they protest against its lndecencles and
heartily wish for its reform. Inc ques-
ton of choosing a newspaper for family
reading is. in most of our large cities, that
of choosing what is least Objectionable. y
These words from writer OF wide OBJ
servation show that our city papers are
not exceptional and that our ladies are
giving expression to common widely felt
sentiment.
A paper published in accord with the
inculcatlons of the text would nave the
following characteristics:
First-It would aim at accuracy OF state
ment. 1t would seek facts.
SecOnd-It would carefully arrange its
facts, so as to magnify the honorable and
minimize those the knowledge Of which
might harm. but could not benefit the pub
lie.
Third-It would be Just in spite of per-
5onal or party prejudice.
FOurth-Its pages would be fit for the
eyes of maidenhood. Its revelations of
details of crime would be made only on
the demands Of public honor and of JUS
tice. 1t would be pure.
Its tone would win and charm from the
low and vulgar to the high in taste and
morals. Its orpheus song would draw the
s0rcerOus music of the sirens.
Its editorials would be the frank, manly
words of noble man. They would mark
the things of good report. and, like bugle
notes, stir the public to deeds virtuous
and praisewortby. The American
home, with its motherhood and child
hood, calls to-day for such a newspaper.
l am sure it will not call in vain.
The morning call., 1893-11-13

sibe? Yes. Such agitation as the pres
ent is healthful. Public opinion is being
formed by what the ladies are doing for
the purity of the press. More, we can
directly appeal to the newspapers; COM
mend them for every noble effort in this
line; kindly demonstrate for what to you
seems obnoxious. Further. patronize the
best-the best morally. What matter if
somewhat lacking in enterprise? Better
partial news with little or nothing to
offend than column after column. bright,
but full of moral poison.