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TIIE MORNING ASTOMAN, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1901.
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; . MALE AND FEMALE TEACHERS.
No less an authority than President G. Stanley
Hall of Clark university has taken up the complaint
to which certain members of the Mosely educational
commission first gave prominence, and has been tell
ing Chicago teachers that there are too many school
ma'ams abroad in the land and that our boys are
Ixang "feminized" in consequence. He went so far
as to say that the predominance of feminine influence
in tie public schools means ultimate "racial degen
eraey."
The published abstracts of President Hall's ad
dress, while making his conclusion clear, leaves some-
' thing to be desired as to the processes by which he
armed at them. It seems to be his idea that while
boys in their tender years may well be left under the
care of female teachers they should be intrusted to
men upon reaching the age when masculine traits
and instincts have once begun to manifest themselves ;
that, in order to develop into a manly man, the boy
should be allowed to be rather more of a boy than he
is under the present system, while only a girlish girl
can become a womanly woman; that all through the
formative period boys and girls should be kept apart,
since eoeducation tends to a less sharp differentiation
between the sexes than is desirable if each is to pre
serve intact its distinguishing mental and moral char
acteristics.
Even granting that the present trend is toward
"feminization" it is a far cry from that to "radical
degeneracy," says the Syracuse Telegram. There is
olid ground for the claim that more men teachers
art needed, for it is admitted that at certain periods
in a boy's life he needs the inspiring and controlling
influence of a strong, thoroughly masculine person
ality. The passing of the old-fashioned schoolmaster,
doe largely to economic causes, is for many reasons
to. be regretted.
ROCKEFELLER'S LATEST.
The latest report about John D. Rockefeller
charges him with a design to merge the mines of
America and perhaps of the world in one combina
tion, headquarters under his hat. These mining
combinations have heretofore been managed by the
Eothschilds, who are supposed to control the world's
production of quicksilver and copper,. If an Ameri
can has risen who can see the Rothschild hand and
go one better, it is a- matter of interest to financiers,
As a matter of fact great mining combinations are
not new in this country, says the Call. The Haggin
and Hearst interests were equal in holdings to the
Standard Oil before it invaded Europe. Senator
Clark has a genius for such combinations, and his
interests run from Montana to Mexico. It is not plain
that he and Heinze and Senator Kearns and the Hag
gin interests will gain by going into the larger Rocke
feller combination, as it is reported they intend
doing.
The silver mines of this country and Mexico are
already practically controlled by the Guggenheims,
who are believed to have been responsible for the
advance in Jhe price of silver which began last year.
A mining combination differs from one made in
manufactures. The history of gold discoveries in
Colorado and Utah and in Alaska proves that no one
can estimate the future of that leader of the precious
metals. As gold in the ground is potential money of
practically unchangeable value, the next prospector
may make a find that will be entirely independent of
Eockefeller and Rothschild combined.
It is perhaps easy to control an independent man
ufacturer and compel him to enter a rival com
bine or go out of business, but this is impossible in
mining. When a Mexican peon can find a mine, as
Pedro Alvarado did, and in a year acquire such
wealth that he can afford to offer to pay the national
debt of Mexico, the difference between mining and
manufacturers in the power of combination over
them made apparent. The recent revelations in
copper in Alaska prove that even that metal cannot
long remain in the control of any combination.
Again, it is hardly possible to apply to mining
f its many kinds the principles by which the Stand
ard Oil Company has made its profit, which has been
won by economizing in methods and cheapening the
product to the consumer. Gold cannot be cheapened,
from the present outlook. It is not a perishable prop
erty like oil that must be consumed in order to earn
a profit to its producer. While some is hwst and
wasted, or put where it is not a part of the actual
currency of the world, still, fixed in position in the
arts or wherever it is, it is potential money.
It is said that the gold stored in the Vatican in
objects of art and in other forms equals in value
the gold coined and used as money by the entire
continent of Europe. But that Vatican gold is merely
stored. It is not consumed nor destroyed, and it is
easily thinkable that if the world's need of gold as
money grew strong enough to outweigh the consid
erations which keep it stored in other forms, it would
be made mobile to respond to that need.
Of course there will at once arise a fear that such
a combination as this engineered by Rockefeller may
so control the output of the precious metals as to
pinch the nations that use them as currency. But
with the mines of Siberia and South Africa in opera
tion and constant discoveries in Alaska, it is difficult
to see how this could be done. If attempted, it
might have the same disastrous effect on the com
bine that the independent output of copper forced
upon the Societe des Meteaux, the first copper trust,
in which Mr. Haggin had some quite disagreeable
experiences.
It is probable, too, that such a policy would run
up against the law. If a railroad merger is in re
straint of trade, how much more is it in restraint of
trade to attempt to limit the output of the money
metals which are the very blood in the arteries of
commerce T .
As the resources of the law have thus far proved
adequate to control for the public interest all other
forms of combinations, and as none has been found
willing, even if able, to long defy both natural and
statute law, the people can afford to wait with
patience until Mr. Rockefeller's plans and purposes
are more fully disclosed, and if they run counter to
the public welfare the people and the law will know
where to strike him.
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THE HORRORS OF WAR.
A man or a woman dead in the prime of life
arouses peculiarly sad thoughts. For there it not
only the sadness that attends death always, the be
reavement of relatives, the thought that the dead one
has gone out of life forever, but there is, in the case
of a man or woman dead before age had come on, the
reflection of the waste of energy caused by the un
timely demise. Here in the coffin lies a man of 30.
His work, on which he had not long been engaged,
is left undone. To bring him to the age of 30 re
quired much suffering, toil, patience, a vast expense
of energy. His mother bore him in pain, and he has
come to nothing. During the years of his infancy
what infinite patience was exercised in his nurture
and training, what a fountain of love welled about
his cradle, what planning was done for his future,
what care and toil were devoted to him in the school
room ! As he grew up, what agonies of anxiety his
mother and his father felt as they watched his char
acter develop, like a rase, petal by petal, never know-
ing at what moment some canker might appear and
rot the boy at the heart ! How the father toiled, how
the mother saved, that the boy might be equipped
ully for doing a man's work in the world and doing
it well! . ,
Dead at 30! All this pain, this anxiety, this
mtienee, this forethought, this toil, this saving, this
spending for nothing! It has gone, all of it, to fill
a grave. The engine, built up with such toil and
cunning, must be laid away before it has done any
work.
A press dispatch telling of a battle in which 1000
men were killed does not make us shudder because
we do not pause long enough to think what the fact
implies. We do not invest the 1000 slain with per
sonalities. We look on them as mere units of fight
ing strength. But each man killed, we should bear in
mind, represents a precious quantity of energy. On
each man a certain amount of care and toil has been
spent in the hope that he would pay it all back by
eading a long and useful life in the world. Fifteen
minutes of hot work in charging a battery, however,
stills all the energy represented by these 1000 men.
The pains spent upon them from infancy went for
nothing but to make food for powder. It is rather
an impersonal way of setting forth the horrors of war
by showing the destructive waste of energy caused by
battle, but, after all, it is a graphic way. Bulletin.
JUST FOR INSTANCE.
A mnn has been sentenced to nix
yw In Sing Sing. In the first place,
he stole Botn groceries to keep hit
8-yenr-old daughter from starving, and
to escape arrest and take the food to
her he knocked down a policeman.
Now the little girl will enter an or
phnna' school and come forth with the
stlgnia of eternal disgrace written on
her heart and mind. It appears that
there are Jean Voljeans In this coun
try aa well aa In the realm of Lea
.Miserable,
'
The General Slocum catastrophe has
been termed the slaughter of the In
nocents. The term holds good In more
ways than one. There will be a slain
on the character if New York until
someone Is made to answer for the
slaughter. Accidents will happen un
til the end of the world. Hut when
human Incompetence comes to the aid
of the accident and multiplies the hor
ror, It Is time for human laws to de
mand reparation.
The bandit, the desperado and the
hold-up man are elsewhere than on
the stage.
During the school year that has Juat
closed there were but four cases of
tardiness In the local high school. If
the students are as punctual In other
walks of life they may be heard from
In the future.
For a man who has a reputation for
being a great thinker, the Rev. Newell
Dwlght Hillls Is proving himself to
be a false alarm. His Ideus on the
divorce evil would hardly do credit to
the school boy who said the only dif
ference between a horse and an el.
phant was that the horse Only had
a tall on one end, while the elephant
bad a tall on both ends.
Considering the way soldiery Is look
ed upon In Colorado at the present
time, It ought to be a bad place for
the Salvation army.
,
Rain reigned yesterday that Is, It
reined up when It came to Astoria,
(Murder!)
But then the rain which fell yes
terday will rise again In dew time.
(Police!)
"I regret to report" Governor Pea
body.
We wonder If the school convention
this afternoon will Instruct for Wil
liam Randolph Hearst!
At any rate, there ought to be sev
eral fights and a stampede or two
among the delegates.
Just to make it seem real.
McCULLEY.
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Every now ana then Mr. Hearst is called upon to
bow his thanks for an indorsement which the polit
ically wise declare cannot be of any practical benefit.
Judge Parker has been peculiarly favored in his
ability to maintain a prolonged silence without being
referred to as a "sphinx."
The promptness with which everything done by
Carrie Nation is noted leads to the suspicion that she
employs a press agent.
The angrier Tammany gets the more David B.
Hill seems pleased.
Resort Will Soon Hsve Syitsm In
Running Order.
Hon. C. J. Curtis was up yesterday
from Seaside. He reports that the
new waterworks system will shortly
be completed, and that the most for
midable obstacle In the way of the
advancement of the summer resort will
be removed. The supply Is to come
from several streams known as Crates'
creeks, the water of which will be
thrown Into the' reservoir. The dam
will be finished today, and thus far
piping has been laid as far as the
county road. If the pipe Is received
promptly the system will be Instituted
by next Saturday, and the laying of
pipe into the Grove will then be un
dertaken. The system Is to cost about
$9000 and will be sufficient to supply
20,000 people. Seaside Is booming, Mr,
Curtis says, and many new structures
are being erected. The new town hall,
which will cost $1200, will be com
pleted by tonight. Seaside's population
Is now about 1000.
BAD BREATH
and Bund ll klnda of medicine, itj tongue bM
been actually aa green h trait, my breath bavlnc
ft bid odor. Two weekt ago a frleud recommended
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