The Daily Morning Astorian

Daily Astorian.

JOHN T. LIGHTER, Editor.

Telephone No. 66.

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There is no occasion for concern about the talk of enjoining the county court in the matter of the bridge location. In the first place, there is no legal ground upon which an injunction can be obtained, and secondly, the men who are threatening that course of obstruction have better sense than to attempt it. No self-respecting man will voluntarily incur the contempt or invite the derision of his fellows, and as most of those who are abusing the county court are pretty decent fellows, it is extremely unlikely they will undertake to defy public sentiment to the extent of attempting to oppose legal objections to the laudable effort made by the county court to settle the bridge controversy in the public interest. The decision of the court will stand, therefore, injunction or no injunction to the contrary. The people want a bridge somewhere that will afford the country on the opposite side of Young's bay easy ingress and egress to Astoria. To some of those interested or who will be benefited by the improvement, it is totally immaterial whether the bridge is located at the precise site selected or elsewhere; provided the question is settled and the construction of the bridge proceeded with as rapidly as possible. but it is thoroughly understood that the movement which culminated in the authorization and location of the bridge was started by the citizens of the Lewis and Clarke neighborhood. who constitute, with the Young's River folk. a large majority of those who will be directly and especially accommodated by the bridge. It is to the credit of the county court that the rights of these people have been considered. and the decision of the court meets with nearly unanimous public approval. If the Clatsop plains people are so foolish as to try to delay or prevent the construction of the bridge they will incur the permanent enmity for their community of the entire balance of the county.