The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-07-07

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lit il advisable TO make the change
Immediately. Every tariff deals with
duties on thousands of articles ar
ranged In hundreds of paragraphs and
lmany schedules. These duties affect
la vast number Of interests which are
] often conflicting. II necessary for our
lwelfare then. OF course, congress must
consider the question of changing the
llaw as a whole, or changing in any
given rates OF duty; but We must re-
lmemher that whenever a single sched-
Iule is considered someone will appear
Ito demand change in almost every
fschedule In the law; and when 1t comes
to upsetting the schedules generally
1.-The. effect -nnon- the community would
be ruinous."
Verify, two souls with but single
!, thought. so tremendously expressed as
not to force a single special interest to
take its lips from the public breast
for fear the public, finding them un-
necessary. might shake them all of.
/ 1t is not. therefore. to be wondered
at that the peroration OF the great
est Of these was sort of dedication
of him who had dubbed him greatest
of these" 1t was almost as natural
as self-appreciation. It was only altar
egotism, after all.
What magnificent piece Of humor
| is this unbounded adulation Of our fell
low citizens in the white house by
''the chief of these!" How humorous
to praise so highly our fellow citizens
in the white house. who, in the long
line Of great men who have filled the
seat he now occupies. has himself
found only about three in his opinion
worthy OF anything like unstinted
praise George Washington, Abraham
Lincoln and himself. Verify, the other
humorists win have to retire from
business.
THE chief of these is Mr.. Root.
The temporary chairman said. speak
ing of the republican party, through
it more than any other party the moral
sentiment of the American people finds
expression" God save us!
Where? Going back to ancient his
tory, in the credit mobillier in the
long saturnalia Of southern reconstruc-
tion or in recent history? In the post
Office department? In the public lands
bureau? In the full sway Of bosses
formerly cursed so bitterly and now
taken so fondly to his bosom by the
president? In the pitiable kilograms
|inquiring just when the patriotic and
''unassisted revolution of so or 100
men was slated" to come off unex-
pectedly in Panama? In the celebrat-
ed order Of Hell Roaring Jake" Smith.
prescribing 10 as the age above which
children were to be killed in one OF
the islands in the Philippines? The
universal honeycombing of our national
life with the corruption Of legislation
bought special privileges? Time fails
me to ask where. What has ancient
history to do with present iniquities,
anyhow?
Mr.. Root says offenders have been
relentlessly prosecuted and sternly
punished" Isn't this remarkable
''thundering in the index" for you
when compared with actual republican
Accomplishments, especially when COM
pared with the refusal Of republican
house Of representatives to make cul-
prits face even so much as congress
sional investigation: when compared
with the absolute and constant refusal
of the republican speaker to recognize
anybody for the purpose OF making a
motion even Of that character. II
there ever was determination fully
entertained and finally carried out, IL
was the determination of the republi
can administration and the republican,
legislative body to see to it that mo-
body should investigate the alleged
culprits in the postoffice department,
except their colleagues in the executive
branch Of the government.
Our Increased Currency.
There was something, however which
will be taken seriously. The secretary
boasts that. the per capita Of circula-
tion Of money among the people in the
United States increased from s2314,
in March, 1897, to $S1:O2, in May last,
and that the credit for that and the
consequent prosperity following 1t was
due to the republican party. What a