The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-06-26
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There are those in this city who
seem to have reached conclusion
that the Astorian is knocking the
city and its prospective developments
of various sorts. This We deny en-
phatically; and TO bolster the denial
we assert that the bulk OF complaints
against us come direct from those
who are next and nearest the things
we have had to deal with in critical
way.
This paper can no more afford to
"knock" anything in Astoria than
any other man or business; we are
Astorian and Clatsopian to the core,
and to back this we are paying out
$4,000 per anRum on our payroll,
alone, let alone the big sums we
dispense in the way OF current ex-
pense: and what is more that cur
rent expense is paid into Astoria
business hands and is not sent to
Portland, save for those things where
with this market is not supplied.
The ]. S. Dellinger Co., blank book
manufacturers and publishers of the
Astorian, ships its products into six
States, and its name is favorably
known by thousands of firms in the
northwest who have used those
products, and have paid thousands OF
dollars for the same which has been
again dumped into the business chan
nels Of Astoria, and that's not all we
intend to keep on doing it and ask
our critics if they are doing as well
for Astoria.
1t is time some sort Of censorship
was set up hereabout to look into
the public concerns that are being
shaped up here, and to exact the
square DEAF at every point of con-
tact between the public and the
promoter. That's what we are in ex-
istance for, and that we are miscon-
strued by those who are pinched a
bit in the discussion, makes no diff
ference to US. We are after the gen.
eral good and safety and that is all
there is to it.
We are daily and hourly in touch
with the candid sentiment OF the
people here; far more so than those
who pretend to tell us where we fail.
We have no hammer out for any
thing that is fair and square and
business-like but if hundred men
tell us the same thing in the course
of day on any given proposition,
we are going to look into it and help
straighten it out if it is the last thing
we do in Astoria. Astoria has no
better friend than its press, and we
hold the leading place in that ele-
ment: we have it by right of years
and prestige and we propose to dis
cuss public matters upon their merit
and demerit no matter who has to
bear the weight Of criticism.
There are two ways of doing
things; the right way and the wrong
way: we propose to have them done
the right way or not at all; anything
short of this is communal treachery.
We give thousands of columns
year to the good of Astoria and do It
gratuitously and becadse we are OF
Astoria. We are none Of rs intail-
ible. but we can help each other at
the propitious moment, and for one,
we propose to do this. 1t is very
easy to forget the generosity OF the
local press, far too easy; and while
we are about it, we may as well say
that that forgetfulness and inditfer-
ence to past favorS, is thoroughly
we'll known and understood at this
office, and is always employed in
differentiating the sources OF adverse
criticism wherewith we are INDUCED.
We are for Astoria first; after that
we shall always be glad to say the
cheerful and friendly thing Of the in
dividual. This is the province Of a
newspaper, interested and disgruntled
critics TO the contrary notwithstand-
ing.