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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-05

Make Good Use OF lt--Therc In an
"odd and end" nnc on just now AT
the popular shoe house Of ChHs. V.
Brown. Don't fail to avail yourself
OF the unusual opportunity for bnr-
gains In footwear. It's up TO youl
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-05

Below Zero--That's where you viii
be II you don't check that cold and
cure that cough with Har,'s Compound
Syrup Tar and Wild Cherry. Sure
thing. Al Harts drug store. corner
ii,h and Commercial streets.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-05

W"TTFHUu 'TVTHIUU"HT, W II NN7
Furlnnl ~ Portland. ana Miss Sophia
Whitford. nf GfayH River were mar
rlod on Saturday evening last nt ia
o'clock at tho mansc Of the First Pres.
bytchan church. Roy. VIM. S. Gilbert
officiating.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-05

Don't Foraet--The Liberty iicll ao-
cinl and dance AT Lognns Hall on Sat
ufday night next. February .. II
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-05
Money Reeeivcd---t,ity

MONEY NoeoIVou"-NIIy IF'HHUF1'
Thomas Dcairy received iiO0 yeuter'
day from liquor licenses ana $50 IN In
H,nllmenta on Commercial street i'm.
proyemcntH.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-05

Special Nurse for Lasell--Mss II.
Englehoart came down from Portland
yesterday 10 act as special nurse for
Henry LAxell. critically III at St
Mnrys hospital. with appendicitis,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-05

Query, and AnsWer-"Editor Astor-
ian: Kindly, through your paper, set
tie a dispute: Does the Southern Pa
citic control the Northern Pacific and
the Great Northern Railway, also%'
No, 1t neither controls, nor affiliates
with either of the Northern roads, save
on basis of interchange of business.
The two northern lines are amalga-
mated under the control of James J.
Hill; the Southern Pacific Is the prin-
cipal factor Of the e. H. Hartman
system Of railways in the West.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-05

Tho very best board TO DO obtained
IN tho city In at THE occidcnt Hotel
Rates very reasonable,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-05
Crkwitx covers umbrellas.

Dell u. Scully, Notary Public. a.,
|cully's Cigar Store. Any old hourl
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-05

Conumdrum of the Hour!-How did
1t come about that Hon. Martin Foard,
prize Judge at the masquerade ball
given by the Sons of Hermann on Sat-
urday night last, get the Goddess of
Liberty mixed up with the mother
Of her country Martha Washington? ?"
or course the hour was, approximate
ly, late for him, and the hospitality
of the German clansmen abundant and
very refreshing, but that does not ac-
count for the mix-up and explanations
are due an anxious public almost on
the verge Of hysteria by reason of the
unfathomable mistake.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-05

Orders in Probate--Judge Trenchard
presiding in probate court yesterday,
ter Of the guardianship Of the person
and estate of Frederick C. Thomas, a
minor, permitting c. S. Brown, guar
dian, to sell certain realty belonging
to the estate. In the matter of the
estate of Martin Poulsen deceased, the
semi annual account of Ludwig Lar
son, administrator, was approved and
ordered to the record.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-05
,port of Secretary and Treasurer.

Report OF Secretary and Treasurer.
No, books taken out during the
year on regular subscription. l29S
No. Of books taken out during the
| year on Transient subscription 12Ot
-
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 25O4
No. new books added to Library
during the year, English. l56
Foreign ......,... ............ IS
Total ........... ........ 244
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-05

Your last chance at the old stand
goods that are left will simply be sac
rifioed or given away, as we must move
what is left the end Of this week. c.
n. cooper's Great Retiring Sale.. At
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-05
IERSE TALES Of THE TOWN

Go TO A. D. Craig for your tents,
awnings and all kinds OF canvas wora
i2th and Exchange, II
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-02-22

the ears of this country. and because
of this memory there is desire that
the constitutional problem OF suprem.
acy in federal treaty or state law, be
settled once for all.
Back in the early days OF our his
tory, Alexander Hamilton stood for
federal power. He argued that all OF
the authority should rest In the feder-
al government excepting that which
was expressly delegated to the states
His colleagues were afraid of the the.
DRY and argued that all power should
rest with states excepting that express
ly delegated to the federal govern.
ment; that local government. and just
as little Of It as possible, was the ideal
And Hamllton's theory is coming more
and more to impress the people of the
country that he helped to found.
In the early days there was no cen.
trail government, and states fought
1t. Each state made its own tariff
laws, and thus there became Unequal.
ity In ports and a rivalry going after
business which resulted in the cutting
OF rates until an injury was worked
upon the whole country. And then the
states formed combination-a trust
for governmental purposes, so to
speak. They went together, each sac.
rifcing little individually for the
sake of the whole, and the nation be-
came recognized by foreign countries.
II was the centralized power that
earned this recognition. 1t Is as the
confidence of foreign nation in the
fact that contract or treaty made
with the central government in the
United States would be observed and
carried out by all of the states in the
union, even though 1t worked more or
less hardship upon a few, for the sake
of the whole.
It's not new problem, but an old
one, that were up against today. It's
the same old problem that the constitu-
tion-builders fought over. And today,
when various state legislatures are
making various sorts of unequal laws
to meet the same difficulties, resulting
in unfair results to the whole union
and to the citizens and industries of
the whole union, incidents of the San
Francisco sort only tend to emphasize
the need of simpler and more unified
authority, invested in a central govern
ment to represent and act for the COM
bined states.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-02-22

Whether the railroads have brought
about this hostility or not does not
Eject their rights TO demand equal and
exact Justice as well as their duty to
give 1t themselves. The proper limit
of anti-corporation legislation is in
common fairness the correction of eX-
listing evils. not the wreating of ven
geance for possible injustice in the
past. More strictly speaking, there
should be no anti-corporation legisla-
ton any more than there should be
pro-corporation legislation. There
should be simply legislation that eX-
tends and guarantees right and justice
to corporation and individual alike.
II is this broad view. of the situation
which Mr.. Brown expresses in his
letter. He comedies the justice of the
legislation that has been enacted up to
this point, but warns against the exhi-
bition of malice in future laws. for
vital injustice is only malice in legal
guise. The increased cost of supplies,
the tremendous demand for enlarge
ment, the voluntary Increase OF $751;
100000 per year in the wages of en-
ployes, the material curtailment of
revenues in many ways, the increasing
difficulty of raising money for improve
ments-all these are facts to be taken
into consideration and any legislation
which does not do so cannot escape
the charge of being to that extent ex
parte and retaliative. The whole situa-
ton is too impressive and too import
ant for any feeling of satisfaction at
the mere Gripping Of corporation
because it Is such. There Is often
more danger in momentum than in i'm
pact and it is against the danger in the
momentum which anti corporation
sentiment has acquired that Mr.. Brown
directs his warning.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-02-22
THE PENALTY or SPEED.

The New York Central wreck, re-
smiling I'm the death of twenty-five peo
ME. brings the list of fatalities In Sc
rious wrecks since January l to con
sIdernbly more than 200. Some OF
them have been due to the failure oil
human agencies to enforce the BLOCK
signal safety appliance, but this last
disaster was one which may partially
be charged up to the American public
The train that was wrecked, was
running at rate OF about seventy
miles an hour when derailed. The
cause OF the accident is matter oil
speculation. The coroner thinks rail-
spread. The speed of the train turned
the cars over and many were injured,
aside from those killed
Americans constantly demand great
er risk In railway service, because they
constantly demand greater speed. AS
n nation we seem To be willing to take
chances on our lives for the sake OF
rushing through with things. The ia
cal train was running at seventy miles
an hour. 1t was filled with people who
delight to ride at that furious pace.
That the public demands faster and
faster service is shown by the patron
age given to fast trains as compared
with slower ones. There's an incen-
tive, therefore, for locomotive build
ers to make machines that will run
along faster and faster drawing coach
es behind.
AS a nation we're looking for chanc-
es to break records In time, And the
penalty for speed comes high.
The waving of red flags In Chicago,
fiery speeches against capital, and all
that sort of thing, is continuation of
the spirit which prompted a man not
long ago to drop bomb in n Philadel-
phia bank. It's q dangerous sign, and
one that ought to attract the attention
of serious minded people everywhere.
The fact that there are in the country
and In the race members OF society
whose minds lead them to destroy by
preference, is serious indication in
itself. And, knowing of this condition,
it becomes the duty of intelligence to
quiet rather than arouse to excitement
such as these. Utterances of drastic
and iconoclastic type fall as seeds upon
these anarchistic minds grow up into
full-sized bombshells in very short
time.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-02-22

OF his life, grllling the president round.
~ for destroying confidence in bust.
ness conditions and tearing down In.
dustrial prosperity. sending out spies
to mako criminals OF cattle men, etc.
The president whose face twitched
With excitement under this attack,
arose and made what IL said to have
bccn the speech OF his life. also, in
which he went after Foraker with
equal jabs. II Is said that things be.
came so tense that some of the more
timld guests even wanted to go home.
Members of the club, who were pres
ent, heard the speeches and, although
they knew the news value OF the story,
they kept faith and sent out nothing
concerning the speeches. That was
Saturday night. But Monday after
noon from some source, somehow, the
story shot out from Washington over
telegraph wires. Then the Associated
Press carried a very short account Of
thlhBS III oIutI w NoHlIuulCl SOuit leu
lures of the first report.
And that is why papers carrying AS.
ISOLATED Press reports, or who had
correspondents in Washington who be-
longed to tho Gridiron club, did not
give the meat Of this story TO their
readers. The story was not one for
The public. It was like a meeting with
In the halls Of secret fraternal order.
Where the story did come from, no
body knows. II is not probable that
man present at the dinner sent 1t.
It Is more likely that some outsider
heard a discussion and, not belonging
to the club, seized upon the POSSIBLE
tiles and used them for his paper.
In some ways the report was de-
plorable matter 1t has destroyed the
secrecy of the Gridlron dinners. A
year ago one of the presidents most
famous speeches was but duplicate
Of what he had delivered at the Grid
iron dinner. This was his speech in
regard to "Muckrakers." No word Of
1t got to the public until some time
after the banquet, when the president
chose to deliver 1t again.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-02-22
RAILWAY MEN TALK.

One result of the agitation against
country, and which is coming to a
head in various state legislatures
through the medium of hundreds of
bills that are being introduced antag-
onistic to those corporations, has been
an increased tendency among railroad
men to recognize the public as a vital
factor to deal with, and to take con-
siderably more care than ever before
in presenting their side of the story
to the people at large. Publicity
which has carried the public's cry from
shore to shore, is now serving to car
ry the views of the railway men, many
of whom had hitherto considered it
unnecessary to talk for publication
1t has been a clear-cut recognition of
the Importance of the public prints in
the forming of public opinion under
modern conditions.
During the past few weeks Mr.. Hill
and Mr.. Hartman have consented to
be interviewed as never before. In
fact Mr.. Hill has taken pains to send
several long letters to the newspapers.
Many others have also paid heed to
the knocking at their doors, and have
opened the doors in order to tell their
side OF the matter to the crowd out
side. w. G. Brown, president of the
New York Central, has spoken. Theo-
dore F. Shonts has given his views.
And Julius Kruttschnitt, director of
maintenance and operation on the Har-
riman lines, has taken the unprece-
denied railroad attitude that complete
details of all wrecks should be given
maximum publicity as a means of pre-
venting further disasters. Mr.. Hill
told us few weeks ago that railway
extension is badly needed; that the
railroads of the country are utterly in
adequate to the traffic; that the rail
roads of America, to keep pace with
conditions, ought to build 5000 miles
of track and spend $500, 900, 900 with
in the next five years-$1 100, 00O, 900
every year--for improvements. He
pointed out that materials have gone
up, wages have gone up, railway con-
struction is more expensive than ever
before, billions of dollars must be Dor
rowed, and yet the public agitation is
for reduction of rates and railway in
come. 1t was pointed out that Presi-
dent Roosevelt has never at any time
contemplated reducing rates, but that
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-02-22
THAT GRIDIRON DINNER.

Wonder has been expressed by part
of the general public over the fact that
the snappy portion of the Gridiron din
ner proceedings, which took place
some weeks ago at Washington, was
printed by many of the weekly maya
zines of the country and by some of
the daily papers, but not by all Of
them. The wonder comes through the
fact that the matter emanating from
the Gridiron club banquet was of
sensational nature and carried large
news value. But 1t is matter easily
explained.
The Gridiron club at Washington Is
an organization of newspaper cores
pondents. Not all newspaper CORES
pondents at Washington are members,
but many of them are. They hold an
annual banquet about the first of each
year, at which they drop their noses
for news and enjoy themselves in their
private capacities. They put on the
grill all of the prominent men in the
national capital, and have much sport
in the pastime. They generally invite
the big men whom they expect to
grill. But there Is an unwritten law
that what goes on in the Gridiron club
is of a confidential nature and that
any public man may say anything he
chooses without having word of II
get into print. The fact that it is the
Gridiron club is a protection for his
utterances, and some spicy utterances
result.
At the last meeting of the club, Pres
ident Roosevelt and Senator Foraker
were invited guests. There was q
prominent cartoonist present, who
drew splendid likenesses of various
men as their names were limited at
Thus, when it was asked, "Who loves
Roosevelt most?" the cartoonist pic
tured Foraker. And on the other hand
when it was asked who loved Foraker
most, Roosevelt's face doomed up or
the sketch artists paper
That much was given to the public
on the Sunday morning after the din
ner of Saturday night. And not much
more. But as a matter of fact there
were a couple of pretty warm speeches
made by the president and Senator
Foraker.
Some reports say that Foraker spoke
FIRST, others say that Roosevelt spoke
first. In stories which say that For
aker led of, 1t is said that he declared
in the course of his speech, that no
body had loved Roosevelt more thar
he. The president is said to have an
swered, insinuating some rather un
complimentary things at the Ohio sen
ator. Then Foraker, angered, arose
and, with white face, made the speech
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-02-22
RIDGEWAY'S FAILURE.

golfers thinks that the failure OF
Ridgeway's weekly magazine has been
gross misfortune and points to the
failure as proof that good things can
fail as well as bad. Golfers looks at
this failure through colored glasses.
The failure has in it more the demon
stration of the fact that the iconoclast
has no permanent place in society, and
that the destroyer and pessimistic ag
itator against evil, eventually dies. 1t
is a striking example of the demand of
the public in this country, and we're
like the rest of humans, for optimistic
things rather than constant battering
away at the bad in the world.
Ridgeway's Militant was a weekly
magazine started some months ago.
1t was to be weekly, and was pub
lished simultaneously in fourteen
cities of the United States. It's mis-
sion was to attack evil in all places,
city and country, and to destroy sin.
Ridgeway's had no time to the build
ing up of good things, nor to devote
to constructive effort. The public
failed to buy Ridgeway's, and the mag
azine has announced it's demise. In
the announcement, Ridgeway says the
printing machinery on which 1t was
attempted to turn out the magazine
! were not perfect, and that the public
would not stand for poorly printed pub
| LEGATIONS, This is well enough for an
excuse. 1t is not logical, because
Ridgeway's was we'll printed. The
trouble with Ridgeway's was that it
was a ''knocker," And the knocker
finds an early grave, whether it be a
national magazine or humble citizen.
Perhaps it is well enough to let
Ridgeway's state it's own purpose in
life. This is what it said: wherever
the strong are depressing the weak;
wherever the thoughtless are grinding
the helpless; wherever selfishness
seeks that which is not it's own; wher-
ever right cries out for a champion;
wherever plutocracy or hypocrisy is
opposing democracy; wherever we can
help along that better day-there you
may expect to find Ridgeway's Mill
tant. This is an honest, serious eff
fort of ours to build up fighting ma
chine, not for political power, not for
profit, but for the common good.
Write to us or write to our editor in
your section, or see him personally,
about some growing wrong that should
be attacked; some wrong in one of
your city, county or other state institu-
lions; the failure of some public Off
cial to do his duty; some glazing so
cial evil; some one of the thousand
crimes that men and women commit
against society for the sake of gold.
See what fighting equipment your
editor has for any campaign he may
take up"
The mission sounds we'll. 1t is a
promise that, at first glance, would ap.
peal to many, because 1t is spectacu-
lar and because it savors of the spicy
side of life; it promises lively reading
of a certain sort for a certain time.
There can be no question but that the
editors In this effort were seriously
bent on their mission to save the coun-
TRY. Neither can there be doubt that
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-02-22
boy were on the wrong track.

they were on the wrong track.
For few short weeks the periodical
'ivo', then II succumbed to a lack of
patronage That's the strongest sign
that It was ON the wrong track, for
the proof of the pudding is in the eat
ing.
There is no question but that there
are gross evils existing in this land to-
day. There can be no question but
that evil always will exist. And there
Is no case on record where an agitat.
ing agent came forth as a reformer
and saved the country. The man upon
whose teachings is founded the chris
tian religion, was an optimist. The
prophets were filed with gloom and
evil forebodings, but the greatest lead.
er OF them all saw the cheerful things
ahead looked for the good and not for
the bad.
Running water purifies itself, and
human generations do the same thing.
Every evil act is a suicidal act. Given
enough time, the evil things will de-
stroy themselves. Corruption will be-
come so corrupt that 1t will die a ma.
tural death. There are many instances
where vice was allowed to go so far
that its viciousness rose up at last and
poisoned its very being. No man or
set Of men, and no magazine or set of
magazines, can purge society by keep
ing before the publics gaze the vice
and crime and evil doing of the out
cast type Of beings.
And persistently holding up to the
public gaze the worst features of life,
has an effect wholly unsought by the
reformer Suggestion Is a powerful
agent. We're all more or less subject
to the hypnotic influence of sugges-
tions that come from the magnetic
men about us. And to forever run on
and on about the vicious things, the
evils, the corruption, by and by pro-
duces the belief in humankind that all
things are bad, that all people are
tainted with crime and vice and self
ishness-and that thought breeds evil
germs.
To constantly keep in public mind,
by agitation, the bad that is around us,
makes more bad people and does not
reform those who are attacked An
attack antagonizes and forever sur
renders the possibility of changing the
ways of the man who is the target.
The iconoclast is almost as vicious
a member of society as the ignorant
criminal, and his destruction may be
greater. Anybody can tear down, but
to build up is much more noble bust
ness And the trouble is that one pes
simist, one iconoclast one agitator,
and seeking out the wrong and evil,
can himself destroy more of whole
some spirit, more of hope, more of en-
couragement and optimism, than a
score of builders can construct.
There is no permanent place in life
for the knocker or the agitator The
founder of the christian religion built
upon good deeds and charity and kind
ness toward the sinners as we'll as the
good-and the effect has been a grow.
ing one. Ridgeway was in earnest, but
Ridgeway was on the wrong track.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-02-22

A Norfolk man who hurt his foot
and wrapped it up in white bandages,
says that if he doesn't get more sym
pathy he will have to wrap it up in
black bandages.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-02-22

Directors of the Commercial club
show their loyalty to the interests of
Norfolk in no way more strikingly than
in getting down town at a. m.