The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-04
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UP TO ASTORIANS!

If all the rational and excellent things
to which this city is amenable in the
very near future are to be made the
most of and are to be met in kind; that
is, if the people, and concerns, who are
to sink hundreds of thousands, and even
millions, of dollars henabout in starting
and forging the new commercial condi'
tions, are to be impressed with the fact
that the Astorians properly estimate,
and appreciate, the work and its vast
cost, there has got to be preparation
made for the expression of a very new
spirit in this mans town; there will
have to be a loosening-up, departure
from old, narrow policies, quickening,
a spontaneity of sentiment and action
a broad gauge, business-like sensing of
the situation, and the adoption of an
initiative on the part OF our people that
will indicate something else beside mere
passivity and the silent greed that takes
all it can get without attempting to
make compensatory effort.
Astoria is very rich city; and Clat-
sop county is equally well favored; be-
tween them they furnish a marvellous
array of natural advantages, commercial
and industrial, all potential if properly
exploited by the use of money and at
a pnpitious moment. We cannot ex-
pect everything to be done by outsiders;
we have our own part to do in this
coming expansion; it is duty that
cannot be longer ignored if We intend to
make decent impression abroad; there
is much to do and plenty of brains and
hands to direct it and do it; the thing
is to realize the urgency of getting to
work in a wholesale, composite position
for the benefits about due.
We took long step in this direction
when the Chamber of Commerce was re-
organized, and are beginning to reap
where we have sowed; that element of
our active, creative program is pro-
crossing splendidly, and is in just the
status now to make good on all that
We are promising the homeseeker, the
investor, the capitalist; it only remains
for the wealthy citizens, the men of
means and of property to band them
selves into a unit Of action and confr-
nation, to start the regeneration OF the
whole city and section. The realty con-
Germs of the city are at point where
the available properties for the market
in the matter of this transition, must be
listed and at feasible figures, 50 that
when the man from abroad comes here,
with our plea for his coming in one
hand, and a rational price for home
site, in the other, they will be in posi-
tion to fill the demand and promise
without loss Of time.
The ready y-money men Of the city and
county must take hold Of the projects
that require financing and assert their
own conndsnss in their own, and CORE.
lated investments inseparable from the
schedule Of expansion. The work of
turning an ordinary city into a budding
metropolis cannot be done altogether on
money from abroad;. N is an insistant
sah thas the stranger shall detect q
local pride and confidence In the place
and the movement, fG in default Of
shat Manifestation. be soon shis at
any sort of opportunity lacking the
voucher Of ths homs-man.
This may be an old story with many
Of ou people, but q was never urged.
yet, at so propitious an hour as this;
and nevsp was 90 essentially true az It
b today. We say it In perfect faith. and
With certain knowedgeable reservations,
that compel its utterance and confirm its
fruth II "a high time all men here
were lining up for business; and demon
strating their own faculty for taking
a sensible and valuable interest In their
own affairs with an understandable ap-
probation of the share that the out
slider is going to contribute. 1t is plain
" up to us AT to show what we know
of Astoria and to do it with faith and
judgment.