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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-03-23

A consul reports that Italy is giving
great attention to fertilizers and i'm
proved farm machinery. That coun-
try may be said to have struck pros
perity gait.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-03-23

Secretary Cortelyou .. proposes to
keep the United States treasury free
from any entangling alliances with
the stock market In other words,
Wall street will have to speculate on
its own money.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-03-23

There seems TO be a difficulty in
drawing the moral from Dowie's life.
How would this familiar proverb an
swer: One Is born every minute.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-03-23

New York proprietors Of hotels and
restaurants have planned a 10000
600 company to handle supplies, in
order to escape high prices" It is
hardll necessary to add that custom
ers are not included in this deliver
ance through the kind Offices Of a new
trust
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-03-23

Probably the bears and bulls will
quiet down as soon as they take in
the fact that the country is keeping
as cool as usual.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-03-23

Wall street will observe that all the
wheels are turning except some that
revolve in its own speculative vieini-
ty.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-03-23

Pittsburg's suffering from water Is
no worse than that of some of the
railroads from the same cause.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-03-23
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Wall street should accustom itself
10 the view that it is only local dis
turbance.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-03-23

Morning Astorian. 90 cents per mont,
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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-03-23

Entered a. second-class matter July
80, iS@,sAt the postoffice nj Astoria. ore.
g0n, under the act Of Congress OF March s,
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-27
personal AND OTHERWISE

The real test of the pure food law will
come when the inspectors start TO label
railroad station sandwiches.
Perhaps that British governor can under
stand a joke, but to most people his talent
in that respect will have to be shown.
Biographies OF newly-elected senators con-
vey the impression that the first step on
the road to success is to be born bare
footed.
The social season in New York will not
be as brilliant as anticipated, owing to the
limited number of ticket holders to the
Thaw trial.
When the merry monarch of Jamaica
bumps against the official boot his impress
sions of the contact will contribute to the
gaiety of nations.
BY the time the insurance ballot counters
get through with their $5 day job, 1t
is doubtful If the policyholders VIII know
which ticket they voted.
with a total Of $3.50 indictments on hand.
Mr.. Rockefeller can afford to decorate his
den with the most unique assortment OF
legal souvenirs on record.
II cost the state $4,000 and the defense
$4,000 to reach a hung jury in the Shea
case In Chicago. Mr.. Shea's supporters re-
ioiced much over the outcome until the
bill was presented. Then mirth took wings
and a hasty adjournment was had.
The mutual aggregation Of Carnegie
heroes is much disturbed over the unheroic
conduct of a beneficiary. A widow Of 49,
whose husband won a medal and 5000 at
the sacrifice Of his life. blew In the money
and eloped with a married man.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-27
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Washington Post: A st. Louis preacher
says the curse OF the drummers is pro-
family, and that most Of them go swearing
from one end of the country to the other
Perhaps If he had a dog or two sicked on
him every day, he would contract the
habit, too.
Philadelphia Record: The clergy and the
teachers of ethics have an almost hopeless
task. Just as they seem to have elevated
the moral standards of the community
something comes along and undoes all
they have accomplished. The Thaw trial
has just opened in New York
Minneapolis Journal: Billy Sunday an
nounced at Worthington, Mimi, that he
was there to fight sin until hell froze over
and then chase the devil across the ice
Willie is some on skates when he gets his
language under him. How would you like
to be converted to holy life by such a
well-rounded hobo?
Baltimore American: A minister in Mas
sachusetts has started a reform of the
most realistic kind. Rather than have
church fairs held to raise funds for the
Increase of his salary, he has gone to
work on week days In a foundry. He prob
ably is the first man with bravery enough
to take an active stand against the time
HOHOTeu eSldDllSnIlenI OF CnufCn IdlIs, ana
many of his sex will secretly hail It as
courage of the heroic type.
Boston Transcript: In a series of revival
services in a western church one Of the
star performers is that of a whistling
chorus of sixty boys from the Sunday
schools who can whistle gospel tunes ito
beat the band" and some people are
shocked at this lack of regard for things
and themes religious. But why not? Why
isn't It we'll to whistle gospel hymn
as to render its music upon some man
made instrument, and why isn't the
whlstled tune as likely to catch the ear
and the heart Of some other boy as is the
music in any other form? Whistling the
gospel message about the street isn't such
a bad idea, when you come to think of 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-27
compelling a rigid enforcement of the
law against gun toting
THE sLoCUMB Law

The biennial frenzy to modify the
Slocumb law regulating the sale Of
liquor in Nebraska seems to be setting
new high water mark at Lincoln.
Those who make these periodic as
saults upon this statute, to make either
it's provisions more stringent or less
onerous on the liquor dealers, overlook
the fact that the Slocumb law was en-
acted more than twenty-five years ago
and has remained practically I'M
changed ever since, giving Nebraska
one of the best systems of regulating
the liquor traffic to be found any
where. When this law was enacted in
1881 Nebraska stood forth among the
pioneers of high license states. A mini
mum license fee of $500 in small cities
and towns and of 81 900 in the larger
cities at once placed a high fence
around the business and brought the
sale of liquor under police surveil-
lance, at the same time making 1t a
source of revenue and relieving to that
extent the owners of other taxable
property.
What is more to the point, the Slo-
cumb law establishes complete local
option in Nebraska. 1t makes 1t inn
possible to thrust the liquor traffic
upon any community in this state
whose people by majority vote have
declared against II and reouires COM
munities that wish to license liquor
dealers to say so outright before the
licenses can be legally issued. 1t thus
makes the rule enforced in each COM
munity conform to the sentiment OF
that community, a condition certainly
far preferable to prohibition or any
similar plan which, irrespective of the
wishes of the people, outlaws the
liquor traffic even where they demand
1t.
The Slocumb law, moreover, fur
nishes ample safeguards against Illicit
liquor traffic and severe penalties for
liquor dealers who fail to live up to
its requirements. 1t has not only stood
the test of time and of experience in
Nebraska, but 1t has formed the
groundwork of similar legislation in
several other states. 1t is a great re-
form law, along practical lines, and
no better scheme of liquor traffic regu-
lation has been devised or put in force
anywhere.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-27
SERMONS BOILED DOWN,
Every deed is born of some creed.

Every deed is born of some creed.
The aimless life always hits misery.
Faith cannot be forced by an appeal to
fear.
There are no prizes to those who always
are prudent.
A divine discomfort alone can lead t.
perfect content
He who kills time is thief as well as
murderer.
A man may hide his sins, but he cannot
hide his sinfulness.
1t is as much duty to guide your love
as to govern your hate.
Your money loses its power to help when
1t gets into your heart.
The everlasting sermon seldom leads any
to the everlasting salvation.
Some heaven in the heart is the essential
passport to heaven as a home.
The man who pats you on the back not
always is pushing you forward.
1t Is a great thing to move men, but II
may be a greater thing to be moved.
There's a good deal of difference between
social prominence and personal eminence.
Some folks always pray, Forgive us
our debts just before the offering is
taken.
If you cannot say No to many tribes
you will never say Yes to any great
triumph.
As soon as a lazy man finds out what it
costs to be sun he goes into the cloud
business.
The law that brings good fruit from good
seed must bring pain and loss from evil
sowing.-Chicago Tribune
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-27
SHALL MEN WEAR BLOOMERsf

Compliance with the edicts of the
Custom Tailors' association, now in
annual convention in Chicago, will
make the chic masculine who follows
the 1907 styles as much a thing of
beauty, so far as apparel is concerned,
as the members OF the senior class of
a female seminary at the June com.
mencement time. The order has gone
forth booking the somber, funereal
garments of the dandy of 1905-6 for
oblivion and the warm number for the
coming spring, at least so the tailors
say, must wear waistcoats, trousers
and other things of the hue of the
rainbow, a latitude in color being al
lowed that would enable the ex-
tremest to make the clothes of Joseph
of Biblical renown look like the uni
form of the chief pail bearer.
According to official advices, the
movement is nothing short of revolu-
tionary. The peg top" trousers
must go and in their place the up-to-
date man will wear a garment that
will give him the appearance of a
dirigible balloon all inflated for the
trial trip. The coats will retain some
thing of their original form and color,
but will be shortened so that the we'll
dressed man will not be compelled to
hold them up daintily when crossing
a muddy street But the real glory
of the new-styled apparel will be
found in the vests. These will dazzle
/ the rays of the MONDAY sun and VIII
! lie may use all of the colors of the
/ three-sheet poster II he wishes, stripes,
plaids, polka dots, pea green, blue and
crimson being authorized by the sar-
torial experts, in original splendor OF
prismatic blends to suit the wishes OF
the wearer. The association has
obIiglngly refrained from Issuing In
structions as to the new brands of ties
and hose. probably feeling that the
man who would adopt the other de-
creed changes would do his worst any
way in the matter OF neckwear and
pedal adornment.
1t is unfortunately too early to pre-
diet the extent to which the ukase Of
the tailors will be accepted and fol
lowed by male devotees Of freak fash
ions, but the chances are that the New
York and Newport eontingents will
promptly salaam to the decree of the
scissor experts. The styles may make
their way westward, in which case, II
all kindness. we may hope the police
authorities will take the precaution o.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-27
THE SHIPPERS VIEW OF COMPETITION.

THE SHIPPERS VIEW OF COMPETITION.
The testimony which shippers are
piling up before the Interstate Com
merce commission since the resump-
ton of inquiry into the Hartman
merger bluntly contradicts the spe-
cious theory advanced by the big mer-
ger men that consolidation of COM
peting roads does not impair competi-
ton between them. With suggestive
unanimity, men in business who have
actual freight dealings totally fail to
find in their experience the blessings
which the consolidated traffic man
ayers have depicted. On the con-
trary, the consolidation was followed
by disappearance of rivalry in.services
and rates and the marked deteriora-
ton of service has been hurtful to the
general business and public interest.
In short, by this testimony the result
is specifically shown to be precisely
what might naturally be expected
from elimination of competition.
No doubt the ambition. the activity
and the ability of agents and employees
of a merged system vary, but this is
not competition in the genuine sense.
The very ground is cut from under
that defense by the mere fact that sin
gle ownership has been substituted for
diversely interested ownership. The
conditions under which employees
strive for business are reversed be-
cause power over services and rates is
not in their hands and the motive in
control is to prevent competition in
them.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-27
TIE MINNESOTA CUSTER CASE.

The issues raised by the suit In
Minnesota to void the charter under
which the Great Northern and its sub
corporations are operating concern the
tap-root questions of railroad control.
The ostensible occasion is taxation in
Minnesota, where. as in other states,
the roads have fought tooth and nail
and successfully to avoid paying their
fair share of the public burden. But
the essence of the prosecution is a test
of power between the carrier corpora
tions and the state, whether they shall
be compelled to submit to explicit pro-
visions of law for the protection OF
public interest against fictitious capt
talization.
The case is a typical one, for the
original corporation, chartered with
the usual powers for conducting trans
portation, has long since ceased to do
so directly, and become an agency
merely for holding stocks of other
railroad companies or a convenience
for manipulating them. In these ma
nipulations, of which the effect and
purpose in large part are charged to
be stock watering, the Hill roads have
also persistently violated the law which
requires proposed capital stock in
creases to be first submitted to and
approved by the state railway COM
mission.
Even had there been no stock water
ing and every dollar of the new issues
had verify been honestly invested In
beneficial ways, the paramount fact
still remains that the law prescribed
how the stock should be legally au-
thorized. That law was for the needed
protection of the public to prevent
exaction of rates on a fictitious and
fraudulent basis of capitalization. Yet
the great railroad company proceeded
throughout as if it had been above the
law. This is the browning and charac-
teristic offense of carrier corporations
against which the public has finally
resolved to try out conclusions.
The Minnesota case is more note
worthy at this time because 1t marks
practical approach to settlement of the
crucial question of valuation of trans
portation property as one of the great
factors in determining rates. The
achievements accomplished by the
movement for public control are in
deed to be considered in a broad view
as only leading up to that question.
The national government has but just
now clothed the Interstate Commerce
commission with power to fix and
enforce reasonable" rates, and the
several states either have already done
or will do the same. But rates must
be held reasonable or unreasonable
with reference to the investment on
which the public is charged to pay a
profit, precisely the point now raised
in Minnesota.
But every advance in state or ma
tional Jurisdiction towards subjecting
the corporations to obedience to law is
thus a gain and a preparation for the
settlement of the conclusive issue,
which is already in sight, of the true
valuation of the carrier properties as
a basis of transportation charges as
we'll as of taxation
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-27
cnnp LABoR ANp 1EelsLAr1oN.

At this time, when the movement to
restrict the employment of children
in industrial undertakings is well
under way, the federal census bureau
has published a report full of valuable
data upon this subject. A careful
analysis of the census figures, on their
face almost startling, is, however, re-
assuring as to the extent of this evil.
The census bureau statistics show
that in 1900 there were 1,75O,17S chill
dren in the United States between the
ages of 10 and Is years employed in
breadwinning pursuits. OF these ~
per cent were boys and % per cent
girls While this total seems large,
even in a population of approximately
80,000,000, the apparent danger is
materially lessened by the exhibit that
1884 of these Juvenile bread
winners are employed on the farms
of the nation, doing the milking, gar
dening and other chores that naturally
fall to the lot of the farmers children
and in no way interfering with their
education. A further elimination comes
in the showing that 13S.035 of the
child breadwinners are employed In
domestic pursuits. This leaves, in
round numbers, about 100000 chill
dren under l 5 years of age employed
in factories or other Industrial con-
Germs.
The conditions under which children
are employed in the cotton mills and
factories of New England and the
south and In some of the coal mines
Of Pennsylvania are undoubtedly de-
plorable, and it is on this account that
the agitation for child labor legisla-
ton throughout the country is gen
orally supported. That remedial legis-
lation is needed to relieve children
thus employed there is no room for
argument, but the authoritative figures
at hand seem to establish clearly that
the evils of the child labor system have
been greatly exaggerated.
In dealing with the child labor ques-
-tion the distinction must be drawn
between "gainful" and harmful" &C.
equations. No one will contend that
the farmers children are injured by
their share of the daily work of the
home or that the town or city boy
who finds morning, evening and vaca-
ton day employment of honorable
character and thus early learns the
duties and pleasures of being bread
winner is necessarily hurt in character
or usefulness. Restrictive laws are
needed to reduce the number of child
laborers in eastern and southern mills,
mines and factories, where the condi-
ton OF the youthful workers in many
instances amounts to practical slavery,
but the only demand of this character
in the west is for legislation preventive
of such abuses for the future. In nearly
all the western states each child is
guaranteed a good education by the
operation of compulsory school laws,
and with the help of a few precau-
tionary measures the possibility of
serious child labor evils can be effec-
tually warded off.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-27
ALCOHOL ON THE FARM.

1t was well understood that the
measure passed at the laet session of
congress exempting denatured alcohol
from the internal revenue tax only
broke the ice and that further legisla-
ton would be required. The law was
a notable step in advance, but the pro-
posal already agreed upon by the
house ways and means committee
promises another step almost as i'm
portant by providing for dlstillation
Under the present law the denatured
alcohol must be produced under the
same conditions as distilled beverage
spirits, so that manufacture is praCti-
cally confined to the large distilleries
and subject to the expense of the
required distillery warehouse and
bonded denaturing warehouse. AS a
further serious difficulty, vast
amount of farm material, rich in alco-
hol, cannot be utilized at all when
manufacture is thus restricted. Ag-
ricultural interests, therefore, have
been calling strongly for legislation
to remove these obstacles.
The whole matter was studied by
the Treasury department commission,
which had to prepare regulations UNI
der the new law, and its report last
fall acknowledged the necessity of ex-
tending the system by the same meth
DDS which in Germany have enabled
thousands of farmers and small distil-
! lers TO manufacture alcohol at mini
mum cost for their own use or for sale
in the neighborhood. 1t was felt,
how ever, that caution must be used
against possible frauds, since the
change required in our methods would
( be so radical, and since in any event
the extension of the use of alcohol as
an agent for heat, light and power
must be gradual.
But the brief experience under the
new law, imperfect as It is admitted
10 be, demonstrates the almost Him
table possibilities of alcohol when
cheapened for practical use, although
the oyersanguine hopes of immediate
results have not been realized. TWO
facts among many that might be citet
bring out this point very forcibly. The
first large shipment of denatured alco
hol under the new law, consisting o.
5000 barrels. is said to have just lef
the Peoria distilleries at a cost OF
track, exclusive OF barrels, OF 29 cent
gallon, whereas 1t was expected a
the time the law passed that the cos
would be at least Ss TO 40 cents. TIT
tax alone before the exemption woul'
have been s2.0s a gallon. But con
temporaneously with this shipment
new price list is issued by the manu-
} facturers Of wood alcohol, one of tn
chief competing agents. cutting price
almost in the middle. These ar
, only first fruits. but they open up
, far-reaching prospect.
The amendment proposes still
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-27

New York has passed law making
local application of the national pure
food law, so far as it relates to drugs,
the purpose being to prevent manufac-
turers from unloading upon New York
patrons the drugs that could not be
sent into other states under the in
spection provisions Affecting interstate
commerce. Similar action should be
taken by every state in which there
are factories whose products are sold
for food or medicine. Neglect of such
precautionary legislation will furnish
an opportunity for manufacturers to
unload their adulterated goods upon
the home consumers, reserving their
products that comply with the require
ments of the pure food law for ship
ment into other states.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-27
INA FRIENDLY SORT OF WAY.
James Mhltcomb Riley.

James Whitcomb Riley.
When a man amt got cent, and he's
feeling kind o. blue,
An the clouds hang dark an heavy an
won't let the sunshine through,
IT'S a great thing O, my brethren, for
His hand upon your shoulder in friendly
sort o. way!
II makes a man feel curiousi it makes the
teardrops start,
OF the heart
You can look up and meet his eyes; you
don't know what to say
When his hand is on your shoulder in
friendly sort o. wayl
O. the worlds a curious compound, with
its honey and its gall,
with its care and bitter crosses, but
good worl after ALI
An a good God must have made it-ieast-
WAYS that Is what / say,
When a hand is on my shoulder In
friendly sort o. way.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-27

further to popularize and cheaper
manufacture by bringing It directly
home to farmers who in the aggregate
should not only be the largest con-
sumers of the finished product. but
have at their disposal an unlimited
supply of the raw materials. What
this means in the matter of power
alone to agricultural industry, in
which machinery is becoming more
vital every day, is scarcely to be esti-
mated.