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PAGE TWO. THE MORNING ASTORIAN, FRIDAY, APRIL, 15, 1901. THE MORNING ASTORIAN, Established 1873. ' r RATES. iy mail, por year ......... By mail, per month . . . . By curriers, per month Not content with political persecution, the Holy Sy nod. presumes to shut Russian intelligence out of heaven by the solemn process of excommunication from the orthodox church. Russia in no way repre sents the civilization, the intelligence, the civic in stitutions, the aspirations or the religious liberty of the white race and Americans will repudiate at once any such pretense. . 6 00 . 50 00 THE SE3I I-WEEKLY ASTOU1AX. By mail, per year, in advance f 1 00 ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RUSSIA AS A CHAMPION. The British conquest of India was openly and frankly commercial. The peninsula had been for ages under alien masters. The Hindoos had paid but little attention to the defensive arts and were over run in turn by the stron ger races. The Mahometan conquest made by the dependents of Tamerlane, es tablished the Mogul empire which the English over threw. Begun by the East India Company as a com mercial enterprise entirely, since the British gov-; eminent took administration away from the company it is believed that the English have been the best masters that have ever ruled India. Anyway there was no pretense of race championship or philantho py about it and England had to stand criticisms f her methods from quite another point of view. ' The Russian conquests that have at last crossed Asia are equally commercial, remarks the Call. They are equally sordid in their motives end have been are equally sordid in thei motives and have been! pushed with equal or greater inhumanity toward the weak peoples that have been ridden down by the Cos-j sacks. There is no reason to believe that humanity has had any more part in them than in the wars of , Genghis Ehan and Tamerlane. But now Russia as sumes a philanthropic attitude and desires to pose as the champion of the white race against the yellow, - and makes this appeal to race prejudice to cover a declaration of war upon China. To this end the nag ging goes on. Our dispatches from Peking and St Petersburg give in detail the effrontery of the measures which Russia proposes as preliminary to the military annex ation of China. It is among the world's moral emer gencies. "What has the yellow race done that calls for a white race champion against it! The yellow races are not threatening white race territory with conquest. They are not in arms against the western powers. They are recognized as members of the family of nations and are represented by ministers to all the leading governments. They are in treaty relations with the rest of the world and in Japan have a civilization higher and in all respects better than that of Russia. Races, nations and peoples need a champion when they are in peril, when their rights are in danger and their liberty is threatened. None of the white races is in this condition. It is impossible for the yellow race to injure them. What the white race want is that all of the yellow men work out their civilized sal vation as the Japanese have done. Then their prog ress will begin, their wants will increase as they rise m the scale and their trade will invite only the com mercial competition of the white nations. . Russia is conducting in this country a hot propa ganda for sympathy. The incidents in the history of our civil war are being made much of. One gentle man remembers the czar told him that if England had recognized the Confederacy he would instantly have declared war against Great Britain. That has all the elements of a fairy tale. But taking it for the trutn wftat is the precedent it establishes t English recognition of the Confederacy would have been a move for the dismemberment of the United States. If the czar told the truth about the state policy of Russia a Russian declaration of war against China bow would be exactly what English recognition of the Confederacy would have been in 1862. As Eng land is committed to the neutrality and integrity of Chinese territory Great Britain would be justified, on the same grounds, in declaring war against Russia. It may be safely said that the people of this coun try do not want Russia as a champion in anything. Nor do we believe that the western nations desire that Russia be promoted to the mastery of the world as will be the case if she annexes China. The Russian system of government is less desirable than the Chin ese and still less desirable than the Japanese. If China followed the civilized lead of Japan her reformers and intelligent statesmen will take the lead and the people will be trained in the operation of representa tive government and institutions. But if China be come Russian the administration will be worse than now. Surely there is nothing in the government of European Russia that the nations with parliaments and systems of jurisprudence desire to copy. Russian reform is out M the question. The auto cracy under the thumb of the Holy Synod has stub bornly withstood all pressure of reform. The brains cf Russia, represented by Tolstoi are under the ban CURRENCY REFORM. It is stated that the Hill currency bill which the house committee on banking and currency has, with only one dissenting vote, reported favorably, is not likely to lie passed during the present session of con gress, but'will probably form the basis of currency legislation next winter. Inasmuch as the committee in question contains several democrats and only one vote was recorded against this report it is not easy to" understand why the Hill bill should not be pressed Verdict For Passenger. Shu lUfael, Oul, Cut. April H. Aft cr loss than one hour's . uVllIu'rutlon th Jury nun awarded Junius Trunsted a verdict ot $S0uo tktfuliwt th North Shore railroad for Injuries received by him In th wreck near Point Reyes to passage at the present session, says the New York 1 station June si, ios. verdicts Soap for toilet, nursery, bath and shaving. Match less among all soaps in the world for these pur poses. Sold .11 ovr th wtwUl Commercial. There is no partisan polities in this bill whatever, except perhaps as irreconcilable "die in the last ditch" Bryanites may fancy they detect a faint shadow of some in the clause relating to subsidary silver coinage. Briefly, it provides for the deposit of customs duties, as well as all other government re ceipts, in national banks, and it removes the $3,000, 000 limitation on the monthly withdrawal of nation al bank circulation. It also provides that the sec retary of the treasury in his discretion may withdraw from time to time any denominations of silver cer tificates and United States nots and substitute like amounts of notes of other denominations; and it pro- pases that the smallest issue of gold certificates shall be ten dollars instead of twenty, as is now the ease. It likewise repeals that section of the present na tional banking act which prohibits national banks from taking out more than one third of their circu lation in five dollar notes, and it requires that all na tional banks having bonds on deposit to secure circu lation shall pay each half year a tax of one fourth of 1 per cent upon the average amount of notes in cir culation in lieu of the present tax on circulation. Most of these provisions, as will be readily seen re late to matters of public convenience, and all of them must commend themselves to men of sound judgment As for the clause relating to subsidiary silver coin age, it simply provides for the recoinage of standard silver dollars, now stored in the treasury, into sub- sidary eoin to whatever extent the secretary of the treasury may deem necessary to meet public require ments. Rampant silverites and, of course, owners of silver mines oppose this clause because they want the government to go into the market and buy silver bullion. for subsidiary silver coinage.' As of yore, they demand that the government shall "do some thing for silver." With $500,000,000 of silver al ready piled up in the treasury which the public ab solutely refuses to use, the senselessness of such a pro ceeding is obvious. There is no reason whatever why this bill should not become a law at once. It would afford relief to the government, national banks and the public from a number of annoyances and inconveniences under which they now labor, and it would constitute a token of republican intentions as to a wider measure of currency reform in the future. amounting to more than 120,000 have been recently rendered against the company, and many other suits for damages sustained In the wreck are pending. H Br. VAUGIIAN, Dkntist. Fytlilau Building, Aetoria, Oregon, . Dr. T. L. HALL DENTIST Ml CoicmoiTtal street, Astoria Ore, Dr. W. O. LOGAN DENTIST t78 Commercial St., Blianalian Baiuliig C. J. TKENC1IARD Insurance, Commission and Shipping CUSTOMS HOUSE BROKER. Agent WelH-Farga and Northern FaoMo Ete press Companies. Car. BLEVBNTH and BOND STS. GIVE the BABY a RIDE! Id mm ot our handaosss sad stylish GO-CART Meodid Variety, All Latest Styles, Direct Irtun factory, Prices Leweat. He H. ZAFF, The Housefurnisher New Style Restaurant Everything First Class. The Best the Market Affords. Open Day and Night Good Service. (20 Hth St- next door to Griffin Bros. and edolnin the Offics Saloon ASTORIA, OREGON ANDREW ASP, BLACKSMITH. Having installed a Kabber Tiring Kaaaiae of Uis laiawt pattern I aw prepared to do ail kiaa of work ia thai Ilea at rcaaaaabU prioss. Telepaoas 2L CORNER TWELFTH AND DUANE STREETS. HOTEL PORTLAND The Finest Hotel In the Northwest PORTLAND. OREGON. JAPAN'S PREPAREDNESS. Probably the world has never Been preparations for a great war carried on so quietly had secretly, and yet so completely, as is the case in Japan's prepara tion to meet Russia. During the past few months writes John L. Dearing in The World Today for April, I have often called to mind an incident of eight years ago. I was standing in the tower of the. Nagoya Castle looking out over the wide plain sur rounding the barracks. I could see large squads of cavalry maneuvering in one direction, in another plain were infantry going through all sorts of tac tics, not simply' ordinary drill, but scaling high walls and performing various difficult feats, in the dis tance another squad were building pontoon bridges, and, as I cast my eye over the field alive in all di rections with men training, I turned to the Japan ese officer standing by my side and remarked: "If you keep on training as enthusiastically as this, you will be able to conquer Russia by and by." The officer looked me up and down, as if deliberating whether he should make reply or not, and then ans wered me in even more laconic Japanese than the English language permits: "That is what we in tend to do." Soon after the China-Japan war, when Japan en tered upon an extensive plan of naval and military expansion, the world said: "She has lost her head. Her victory has puffed her up ; why does she not settle down to commercial advancement and educa tional expansion, instead of wasting her time on mil itary expansion and going about with a chip upon her shoulder?" Time has proved the wisdom of her course. It would see mthat Japan saw the future course. It would seem that Japan saw the future day. Had not Japan begun then her preparation for the present situation she would have found it im possible to meet it in the marvelous way that she is doing. Careful plans for self defenuse have been maturing from year to year, though, of course, the past year has seen the work of preparation carried on! much more rapidly than before. rxxxxxirrirrc: FRESH AND CURED MEATS Wholesale and Retail Ships, lagging Camps nnd Mills supplied on short notice. LIVE STOCK BOUG I1T AND SOLD M WASHINGTON MARKET CIIRISTENSON CO. rtTTTTTrrTTTT ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTITl Something New Ranges, Stoves, Iron Beds and Furniture of all kinds. Also a good assortment of Second Hand Goods at Lowest Prices. L. H. HENNINGSEN $ CO. 504 BONO STREET, ASTORIA, OREGON. PHONE, RED 230$ Scow Bay Iron 8 Brass Works UmzkiUttts of Iroa, Steal, Brass and Broase Castings. Gnral Fecndrvtueu and Patternmakers. " , Absolutely firetelass wrk. Prices lowest. Pfegg 2451 Ccfusf Cllktecatt gsd Franklin. JAY TUTTLE, M. D. ritYSICIAN AND 8UHQKON Avtliift- assistant Surgeon U.S. Marias lluafltnl Murvlos. Oftlcs hours: 10 to 1! a.m. t to 4: SO p.m. 477 Commercial Btreet, 2nd Floor. Dr. IU10DA C. HICKS OSTEOPATHY Mansetl Bldg. I7S Commercial St I'llONtBUCKiMV O. V BAKU, DENTIST Matiscll lluilding 573 Cjiii nsivUI Htroot, Astoria, Ore TELEPHONE KEtl SOUL TO 1U mnin-Br-crinia I.IUIU f t.l. t ft. . 1' . a or ton rf mmk fat S" tin rinu !lruDl ion tiiimull or ton a vr to w rue or Hr ii hi. MM ion Bl train, tKifs, I, n. HiwiM. rt Iwinlml, Hatm kit nrautw.f, . V. A DIRECT LINE to Chlcaco and all points east; Ixnila vtlis, Memphis. 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