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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA', OREGON. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER i4 1905. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Published Daily fcy THI J. S. DELL1NGER COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By nail, per year ...17.00 By mail, per month .60 By carrier, per month... .73 WEEKLY ASTORIAK. By mail, per year, in advance.. $1.00 Batered a Moond-elata Blatter June B. INt, at the poatoffiM at Aitorta. urr tan, under the act of Conjresi of March S, Im. gyOnWtfortheddJroninotTai Moax im iaroaua to tlthkt ixwidene. or plac of Urouctt tele. boo, amy Irregularity in do Urarj should b imidlitaly reported to tb Of pnomamoa. TXLEFHOKX HATS 661. WEATHER TODAY '4 Portland, N'or. 13. Western Oregon: Generally fair. 4 Wtw-n Wu&intftcB: Partly t) ciotidy with prpbatl ahowers. 4 Eastern Oregon, Eastern Waah ington: Fair. INFLUENCE OF CHILDREN. The real inflence of children lies in their exquisite innocence. No man or woman grown gray in the turmoil and train of life can hope to be "as a UtUe child." The incubus of knowledge ia ap palling even to the one that has sought the knowledge and possesses it. The adult reasons from the hypothesis of what he or she knows of life, society, humnn condition!, frailitie tempera menta, and the thousand and one be getting and obligatory rules by which every event in life is guaged and criti cized. The child reasons from the stand point of pure inexperience and every word it utters and every act it per forms, is spontaneous, and being spon taneous, it is pure, whatever the tenor f the word, or character of the act. "Except ye become as little children'' is a text that has driven many a man into hermitage, because tie could not dwell with men and women and approach the standard of loveline demanded by the great teacher of men. 0 HIGHEST OF DUTIES. The first and highest duty of a Board of School Directors is to safeguard the innocence and purity of the children within it province. This dorfc, tlve manipulation of the ordinary affairs of the district shall receive careful con eideration. Primarily, the member of Uie board are responsible to the par ents of the children for the nature of the supervision and care to which they are subjected, daily. If this is not of the cleanest and best and most whole me, then a direct injury lias been done to every child involved in the blunder, and like all public blunders is susceptible only of instant rectifica tion at the hands of the blunderers. If tjhe qualifying change cum quickly) enough, perhaps tl ill-efiect of the ori ginal mistake may be eliminated, or, at fcast, so modified as to leave tlie school ami its children on to the newer intlu'-nce and the harm threaten ed may be thus averted. The school board that know the danger, and de liberately ignore it in order to save it self from the charjre of having blund ered, is not fit for tlnf, rm.ibility imposed upon it by law and by every precept of good citizenship. 0 RUSSIA'S NEW GOSPEL. There is not the slightest cause for wonder that the people of Russia re pudiate the new overtures of prace and freedom offered them by the Govern ment. Aftr 300 year of intolerable op pression, in which all that made for the degradation of the race was permit ted and encouraged by the fountain head f final authority in the land, it ia hard to make the poor miseruM wretches belief anything that emanates, unask ed, from such a source. They have never looked for anything but brutal, venal, gross and ruinous doctrines and prac tices from this alwde of power, and that a gcpel of good will, of freedom, of humane spirit, of rvrwrwl immunity, of electoral privifcew and fum-titm. should 00m to them, spontaneously, from the very Government itself, is too wondrous for human credulity. Of eourw they don't believe it; and unbelieving, they plunge into new atrocities in order to avenpj the newer and craftier game thevba lieve their ruler are up to. On- It vears of rtMru can overcome the awful gulf that divide th hundred of millions of enslaved and brutalued hosts of Russia from their government, and bring them to a realization of what is actually meant by the strange pro paganda of decency and toleration and clean administration. The task of bringing thi awful host of abnormal creature in line upon a system of mu tuality and forbearance and common helpfulness, is one of mighty propor tion and must involve several genera tions to compass it. The first step in the tremendous undertaking, is to di vest the Imperial family and the court of ewry vestige of power over human hfe and liberty and transfer the pre rogative to the court of the land; put the officers of Uw Government upon an electoral basis, from top to bottom, and create a parliament that shall check the plav of individual and irresponsible power forever, and giw the people some open, conant sign of their real free dom, that they may learn the sooner the splendor of the gift that is theirs. 0 LIBRARY HEADQUARTERS. The American Library Association proposes to create a fund for the es tablishment and maintenance of a na tional headquarters for the public li braries of this country. The scheme is not only to educate trained librarians and assistant but to secun a central point for the difnination of data valuable to the librarfcn. It is observ ed with accuracy that few occupations have increased their opportunity so rapidly in the past twenty years and few have received less skilUal labor. With Urge investments in their care, many custodians of public institutions know little of the books on their shelves and are unfitted through lack of proper education to fill their positions. Some of the greater institutions haw been so fortunate as to secure capable men and these libraries are now bringing up a generation of apprentices who will be able to earn Uieir salaries. But in many instances, through the great increase in the number of libraries by the Carnegie fund and state law or municipal ordi nance, it has been nectssary to appoint men unable to fill the requirements. 0 HELPLESS INDEED. The shocking lrbarities on Christian missionaries in China are but a faint replica of the atrocities against the Jews in Russia. We rightly assume that only savage can be guilty of such horrible cfluelti. Yet whil(j the victims in. China are Christians, profensing Chris tians are the perpetrators of the atroci ties in Russia. Some sort of redress for the acta of the Chinese fiends, who mar be punished because there is no redre for the frightful wrongs the Jews have suffered in Russia. The un happy victims are subjects of a Gov ernment which has placed them under the ban and refiut-s to protect tliem. No other nation has a right, according to the comity of nations and the prin ciples of intenational law, to interfere in their behalf, and they are thus aband oned to every torture and outrage brut tish malignancy and besotted bigotry can devise. Surely their late is one that appeals to the sympathy of civil ized humanity. It is horrible to think that then is no relief for their suffer ings, no remedy for wrongs so terrible and heart-rending. 0 HE DID HIS DUTY, It may or not be significant, but the fact that President Roosevelt declined to wrift- letters endorsing the Reublican candidates for Governor in Ohio and Massachusetts and the Republican can didate for mayor of New York is never theless worthy of interest. Attorney General Moody took the stump in Mas sachusetts and so did Secretary Root in New York, and Secretary Bonaparte in Maryland, while Secretary Taft made one sjieech in Ohio, but thi- President re frained from any personal exprsion dur ing the campaign, lie made many speeches while the campaign was In pro grew, but if what h said had any poli tical significance, in the partisan sense, at all, it was an encouragement to in dependent voting. Secretary Shaw spoke of course, in many states, but he is to retire from the Cabinet on February 1, and Is an avowed candidate for the Presidency, he is not to be regarded as a spokesman for the administration. AGE MAKES IT RANKER. Some champion of Gwrce Bernard Shaw refer to the antiquity of Mr. 'Narrens profoMon as an evidrnce of the propriety of making it the subject of dramatic representation. They will hardlv deny, however, that it was al- wava an unclean and tlcmoralir.itg trade. TW slave in lVride of Tyre says, "it is a stinking business; it smells to heaven." Indeed, it wa lwav so. Age has not bushed it or clothed it with the mantle of respectability. Its innate in- deivncy Is of such a peculiar character as to forbid decent treatment on the stage. Bccaue it i a vsrit ty of moral al rottenncn ever present in the nociiil organism, and apparently Irradicahte, I no reason why it should lie paraded on the stage or glorified by dnimatisU. 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