The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-12-10
TIMELY TOPICS

The only way TO fool the bandits
would hc TO decline to be captured.
No American woman who stays at
home viii ever be- subject to danger
trnm them, The American woman In
this country can derive her only infor.
NATION concerning the bandits " Rul.
garia by reading, and therr would be
nothing to read II the other American
woman were not SeiEcd NJ lad tnr
saving the souls ~ distant people.
while there are souls within easy reach
In need ~ the same operation. ~
course the bandits ought 10 De KILLED.
but Ia accomplish the desired result
requires more than woman ARMED
with tracts and made brave by a rom-
tortiug sense that she Is performing q
duty,-Tacoma Ledger.
The needs and claims NJ irrigation
will be- set before this congress with
great earnestneSs and completeness
For years the subject has grown In
importance and the necessity " fed
ergl action has become NOR obvious.
ly desirable The dell has been cx.
0mined the detailcS studied and the
vital and lnseparable connection be-.
tween irrigation work on a large scale
and the authority OF the state and ma.
tion is recognized. With the absorp.
ton OF the public domain. the import.
ance ot reClRlming the arid regions be
gins 10 press upon the public mind II
may take many years vet to work out
general complete and practical sys,
TEN of irrigation under federal author.
ity. but the work has been begun. and
We may very probably see sensible
progress recorded at this sessi i5n.-Se-
attle P.-T.
At a banquet by the New York
chamber OF commerce Secretary Hay
said a few eloquent words about Am
erican diplomacy. The Monroe doc
trIne and the golden rule" he declared.
were the chart by which the country's
rule OF conduct towards the rest OF the
world was being regulated We have
no more desire to get any OF the terri
tory or the countries Of Central and
South America. ne remarked than We
have to annex the mountains of the
moon This Is a fact too as all Am.
orleans know. which Is coming to be-
understood by all intelligent persons
I'm the countries to the south NJ us.
Some Of the addresses by the delegates
NJ the Pan-American congress In the
city of Mexico have paid magnificent
tributes TO the service rendered an
those nations by the United $ atcs-
Globe Democrat
Secretary Root. in the second and
final section of his annual report. deal
ling exhaustively with the subject oy
conditions OF the Philippines gives on
the whole a hopeful view Of affairs.
showing that the progress OF good
government there has been greater
than even the mos, sangulne Americans
He believes our rcpresen-
tatves there are winning the conf
dence of the natives. necessarily a slow
but. ne thinks. certain be-
cause they are conducting Themselves
In such a manner as 10 deserve Il. II
has evidently been n surprise 10 the
natives that we have kept our promises. F..
something they We're unused 10 from
their rules n centuries past The ton
dency is steadily toward the substltu-
tion Of civil for military government
in the archipelago but only when II
seems to BE- safe TO do so.-Brooklyn
Union.
D. " Delmas, the noted criminal
lawyer Of San Francisco. said In his
Grafton before the oregon Bar
Association at Portland: The lnnu-
enco welded by the concentration Of
the affairs Of the nation is as stipend
Gus as II Is lnpre ed .nted It CON
trolls political action, shapes legIsla-
tlon. molds financial politics dictates
wars. formulates the terms - peace.
and. while preserving the external
shape Of a republic, transforms q gov
eminent originally designed 10 be car
ricd out by the people FOR the common
benefit of all, into nero money max
Ing machine. controlled by commerci-
allsm and operated In lts interest. The
results are already manifest In the
Of this colossus personal in
and individual enterprise
are not only discouraged and dwarfed.
but absolutely paralyzed. Holding In
It's mighty hands the fates and for
tunes Of individuals, to attempt to dis
obey its dictates or thwart its viii by
individual effort IL but TO invite indi-
yldual ruin. And thus, to all appear
ances. are the life and fate of the re-
public rapidly passing from the hands /
u American freemen into those Of /
financial ollgarchs"
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