The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-10-20
The Commercial AstOrian'S Spe
cial Edition Selling Fast.
EXTRACTS FROM ITS COLUMNS
Some of the straightforward and In
teresting Reading That the Fall
Fish Number Contains.

Fishing Edition of THE Commercial Asto-
r-lan published yesterday, has been SO
great that nt has been found necessary
to strike off second edition of several
hundred copies to supply the demand.
below win be found some few extracts
from lit. In addition to these there are
interviews with every canneryman on the
Columbia and large quantity Of other
reading just as interesting.
This morning the Commercial AS
torian presents to its readers a special
edition devoted to a resume of the fall
fishing controversy. In compiling this
edition the Astorian HAS entirely lost
sight of any bias or predictions 1t pos
sesses with regard to this question, and
has endeavored to place before the pub
lie and the trade GENERALLY fair and hon.
est expressions of opinion gathered from
every available source.
In view of the base and despicable at
tacks made upon the Astorian by some
of the packers of fall salmon, We may be
pardoned perhaps for saying few words
in explanation Of our attitude and the
relations existing between the Astorlan
and its proprietor, one of the leading sal
mon packers of the Columbia River. The
Astorlan is now in its 21st year. Since
it's foundation, and from the time when
it was one of the only three papers pub
lished in the state, Ut has had more than
one owner but only one policy. Some
three years ago MIR. Samuel ElnIore,
through some business changes which
have no interest for our readers or the
general public, found himself the owner
of a majority of the stock of this paper.
He has been It's virtual owner ever since.
At that time, and for some years pre-
vious to that time the AStorian had
been speaking in no uncertain voice on
the subject of fall fishing, deTouncing 1t
as an evM and demanding its abolition.
When Mr.. Eimore became the Astorian's
owner, its opinions on this and ell other
subjects, political and general, under
went no change The AC5torian is only
one of a multitude of business enter
prises in whlch Mr.. EImore is interested.
AlO of these enterprises, from his steam
Ship lines to his various cannery estab-
lfShments, are OF course operated on
their own independent business footing,
and are supposed to be under the imme-
diate direction of qualified and capable
men skilled in their own departments, who
are directly responsible to Mr.. EEmore for
their successful or unsuccessful outcome,
Naturally, being a shrewd man Of busi-
ness, Mr.. EJJmore aims to have each OF
his interests occupy it's own field and run
as Independently of all the others as If II
were under Separate owner'ships. This
has been his course with the Astorian
and since he became connected with the
paper we can truuhfully say that ne has
never in any way attempted to influence
or change it's policy. Any man of or.
dinary business sense can readily see
why Mr.. Gilmore has adopted this
method. He no more thinks of debating
the course of his paper than ne would
think Of going into the whoerhouse ot
one of his steamers and running her out
to sea-
Two or three business rivals engaged in
salmon packing, angered by his success,
and driven by their insane jealousy to
unmanly methods, have striven to de-
fame not only Mr.. EImore but the AS
torian as well. They have employed in
this work the lowest and vllcst tools
that could be obtained-some small black
mailing sheets with which Astoria is un>
happily disgralced, and by spreading
broadcast these evidences of their in
famous conduct have attemptd to ruin
the character and business of an honor
able man and an honest newspaper. The
Portland Oregonfan in a recent issue,
speaking ed.ftoT1ally of these filthy sheets
THAT certain cannerymen have been using
to further their vie ends, slys:
Almost every small town allows some
vile publication calling itself news
paper to live by threatening to make ex-
posure of the peccadilloes, Irregularities
or private transactions in the lives of
ciUizens which they would prefer to keep
concealed. Portland Is not yet large
enough to be free from these pests, and it
is not to be expected. perhaps, that
Astoria should be free from them. Yet
the citizens of any town are responsible
for the existence of such publications
among them. Astoria has one that is
particularly noisome. Its editor is one Of
the most loathsome of his GLASS He has
been indicted and convicted of libel, has
been whipped and kicked about the
streets till men feel that it is a disgrace
to themselves to cudgel or kick him any
more; and yet there are some who still
are afraid he might print something
against them. They are very weak. 1t
is not necessary either to kick, to horse
whip, or to be in the least afraid of the
varlets who print papers of that class, or
to pay them for silence. Just let them
alone.
The Astorian need add nothing 20 the
above statement.
Below will be found an interesting
series of extracts from all The proml-
nent trade papers of the country, which
shows what kind of appreciation our
course is receiving In the large business
cenlters, and how numerically these
defamers are being scored by people
who are sensible enough TO see through
their methods.