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4 THE ST. PAUL GLOBE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1898. ~~Asso slated Prsss Naws. CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. ~Dy"Carrler'T^7rTrmo J 6_mo*Jl2_moa_ Da"i!y"o^l7 *0 c ||~ 2 . 2 5 )4.00 Pan and Sunday... sOc I I 5.00 Sunday ...^ .^ la c ) . « COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS. "By MaiTTTT.. I l~mo'Tj_i noa -l **.-??* Tai'v o- ly ~"..7..|. 25C$ I. 5 0 $3.00 iSlit and Sunday..!. 35c 1.0 0 4.0 0 Sunday :J j \' \\ y . ._l-LLL— — - — Entered at Postoffice at St. Paul. Minn., aa Se.ofd Class Matter.— Address all communl s and make all Remittances payable to THE GI-OBE CO., St. Paul, Minnesota.-— Anonymous communications not noticed, re jected manuscripts will not be returned un less accompanied by postage. BRANCH OFFICES. lew York 10 Spruce St Chicago. ...Room 6W. No. S7 Washington^* THE DEMOCRATIC TICKETS. STATE. Governor JOHN LIND. Brown county Lieut Gov J. M. BOWLER. Reuville gee State J. J. HEINRICH. Hennepln Treasurer ALEX. M'KINNcTN. Polk Auditor GEORGE N. LAMPHERE. Clay Attorney General. .JOHN F. KELLY. Ramsey Clerk Sup, Court.... Z. H. AUSTIN, St. Louis Judges iTHOMAS CANTY, Hennepin Supremo ,/jDANIEL BUCK. Blue Earth Court ,\VM. MITCHELL, Wiuona FOR tOXGRESS. First Dl*rlct MILO WHITE Second District D. H- EVANS Third Dtstrtct CHARLES G. HINDa Fourth District JOHN W. WILLIS Fifth District T. J. CATON Sixth District CHARLES A. TOWNB Seventh District P. M. lUNGDAL RAMSEY COfVTY. Judge of District Court. .GEORGE L. BUNN Judgefcf District Conn. JAMES C. MICHAEL Clerk of District Court. .. .JAMES A. MEADS County \u000dr WILLIAM PLATTE County Treasurer ANTON MIESEN County Sheriff JOHN WAGENER Register of Deeds VICTOR C. GILMAN County Attorney HERMAN OPPENHEIM Judge of Probata Court... JOHN CAVANAGH Abstract Clerk FRANK J. ELLES Coroner OREN S. PINE County Surveyor J. B. IRVINE County Sup:, of Sehopls. .. .JOHN A. HOGAN County Commissioners — WILLIAM BROWN, CHARLES KARTAK, D J. SULLIVAN, CHARLES I'.F.IF, CHAS. M'CARRON. OSCAR TANKENOFF. RA3ISKY COINTY LEGISLATIVE. Senators — Thirty-third District. .EDWARD PKTERSON Thirty-fourth District R. S. M'NAMEE Thirty-fifth District JOHN H. IVES Thirty-sixth District. .. .JOHN E. STRYKER Thirty-seventh District F. H. ELLERBE Representatives — First Ward WILLIAM JOHNSON Second Ward ...CHARLES LEIDMAN Third Ward HENRY W. CORY Fourth Ward JOHN J. O'CONNOR Fifth Ward J. Q. JUENEMANN Sixth Ward A. L. GRAVES Seventh Ward LOUIS D. WILKES Eighth. West Part GEORGE F. UMLAND Eighth-Ninth, S. Side....W. B. HENNESSY Eighth-Ninth, N. Side. .THOMAS F. MARTIN Tenth-Eleventh, Country. ...A. KNOWLTON TUESDAY'S WEATHER. Rain or Snow; Co.d r. By the United States Weather Bureiu. MINNESOTA— Rain or snow; colder in east ern portion; high north to northeast winds. WISCONSIN— Rain; dangerous shifting gales; . i:i northern and eastern poraona. lOWA— Rain or snow; high we^t to north west winds. THE DAKOTAS— Rain or scow in castf-::i, fair in western portions; north west wind-. MONTANA— Rain; warmer; variable winds. Y ESTBRD AY'S T E M P ER ATU RES— St. Pa u 1 , lulutn, 52; Huron, 35; Bismarck, '.0; Wil liston, - s Havre, 14; Helena, 40; Edm nt n, SS: Battlefcra, 28; Prinne Albert. 26; Medicine 12; Swift Current, 30; Qu'App.-ile, 28; Minnedo a, 3J; Winnipeg, 36. YESTERDAYS MEA.WS— Barometer, 29. (J0; mean temperature, 44; relative hum'.diiy, l-i; wind v B p. m., northeast; weather, c'.oudy; maximum temperature, B0; minimum temper ature. 39; daily range, 11; amount of precipl in 1 st twenty-four hours, .24. RIVER AT 8 A. M. Danger Gauge Change in Sta^on. Line. Reading. 1A Hours. St. Paul 14 4.1 0.0 10 2.1 *0.1 Davenport 15 1.1 •••• St Louis 30 3.0 •Risj. Ni — Barometer corrected for temperature and elevation. —P. F. L.yon 3. Oberver. Register early and nvjld the r^sh. The ji;«t and the unjuet alike reed umlii't lias. And the rumored new tobacco deal all ends it: smoke. All the shirt plants in the country will be hard to collar. Old Bus should remember that it is t\ inter and time to go into his hole. Things might always be worse. The rain was a blizzard at Kansas City. At Walker yesterday, they were Ror.dcrlng "What Happened to Jones." From the amount of enthusiasm ex pended, one might imagine it was Chi cago's war. A Wisconsin farmer paid $11,500 for a quick tire setter patent right. Now he is tired. Col. Roosevelt's campaign is at a Standstill. He might try another "round robin." It is a very disagreeable brand of weather which Mr. Lyons learned to nr-iki at Omaha. When the Bear islanders finish with the peace pipe, they might pass it over to Senor Segasta. The dogs of war in Europe are wondering whether they are blood bounds or pet pugs. Possibly Republican apathy can be accounted for by the fact that few • barrels are on tap. Trust for furniture would suit many young: couples who are opposed to the new furniture trust. The war department prohibits sweets in Manila Christmas boxes; candy, that is, not sentiment. Any one anxious to hire a governor general with previous experience might apply to Madrid. Butte reports a football casualty. The Pillager record will be hard push ed before Thanksgiving. w is the season when it is hard to tell whether a man is careless or growing his winter beard. Volunteers are getting a wide range of experience; yellow fever and sun- Btroke in Cuba, blizzards in Kansas. Art, as taught at Yale, is the real thing. A New Haven student paid $:*0 for a "hand-painted etching" worth 30 cents. The Cu)ran insurgent leader indig nantly denies the stbiy that he is work ing for the United Sutos. There was always something suspicious in that report of a Cuban working, anyhow. The Alger whitewasheis are in Flori da seeing how it was for themselves. To discover actual conditions, they should have waited until February and then have gone to the Ponce d« Leon. Register Today. The first day of registry is today. The first duty of every citizen of St. Faul, after he h^s finished his morning: meal, is to step around the corner and see that his name is properly enrolled. It is true that he can postpone this auty until the morning of Tuesday. Oct. 25, or Saturday, Oct. 29. But why play the Spaniard and do tomorrow that which you can do today? Nobody can vote next month who has not reg istered this month. The voting list made up prior to this month plays no part in this election. The registry broths will be open between the hours of 6 a. m. aad 9 p. m. Th'rty days' lesidence in an election district, six months' residence in the state and a certifleati >n of naturalisation, if not native-born, are the only qualifications for registry and voting. Register today. Our Foreign Trade. The tota] amount of our exports dur ing the first nine months of the cal erdar year, beginning Jan. 1 and end ing Sept. 30. 1898. exceeded by *55,755, --058 the exports for the same period of 1597. This is a splendid showing in the line of trade. The aggregate can best be analyzed by the following summary compiled tram the report of the bureau of sta tistics: is9B. vm. Breadstuffs $886,526,993 $159,317,747 Provisions and cattle.. 146.171, 544 132.590.569 Cotton 122,452.132 105.436.555 Mineral oils 39.21t>,393 M,267,2£S Totals $r.33.3G7,3L : 2 $444, G1 2, 3 6 The following further comparisons, extending to 1895, of exports of domes tic products afford a still more striking evidence of the increase of our foreign trade. The totals are given without analysis as follows: $337,0C7,128 1596 399.563,357 1897 4-14.G1i.3i6 IMB 533.C6r.362 It will thus he seen that the gain lr. IS9B was, as above stated, $88,755, --056 over the same period in ISS7; $133,- SOd,COS over 1896, and $196,360,236 over 1805. These figures show an increase of almost 60 per cent during the first nine months of 1898 over the same pe riod of 1595, and of 20 per cent over those of the same period last year. An increase of 41 per cent is shown in breadstuffs, 11 per cent in provisions and cattle, and 13 per cent in cotton, while there has been a decrease in min eral oils of 11 per cent There were $140,000,000 more of bread stuff? exported in 189S than In 1895. An increase, however, of $26,000,000 la found in provisions; $7,000,000 in cattle and hogs, and $22,000,000 in cotton, between the years named. It is worthy of note, especially to the n-ind of the agriculturist, that these figures represent products of the Indus trie*: d'ir.c-tly associated with the soil. It is true that the export demand for these commodities is dependent wh lly upon conditions of shortage which oc cur in other countries, and the same conditions may not exist next year. The September exports do not show bo well, in dollars and cents, but one reason for this exists in the lower prices this year as compared with last. The shipping demand for wheat during the past week has been almost unprec edented ly heavy. But the exports of wheat in the month of September were 5,000,000 bushels loss than those for the same month a year ago, with a differ ence in value as represented by the figures of $10,844,310, as against $19,635, --751 last year. There was als=o a de crease in the value of corn exported, but the aggregate value of flour ship ments for the month, as reported by Biadstrtet's, was $6 165,186, as against $5,378,182 in September, 3897. The de cline in provisions is confined to dairy products, live cattle and fresh beef. In eo't.n the experts were $5,700,000 less- in value than in September last year, but in this case, as in that of wheat, the figures are based upon the lower mar ket price. In the ease of oils, while there was an increase in bulk, there was a decrease in price. The Post-B?l!um Fare;. It is Interesting to r.ote with what unanimity the press of the country, ir respective of party, which have crit icised the management of the war de partment during the Cuban conflict, recognize the farcical spirit in which the alleged investigation is beimg con ducted by the commission appointed by the president. Anyone who reads the reports that have daily emanated from W-i^hington cannot fail to be amused, if he has a spirit of humor In his soul, at the angular, back-action methods which the commission has employed in the apparent attempt to reach ths. truth. Instead of going directly to the front door, ringing the bell and calling upon the master of the house, they &v around the area, into the back stairs, with a dark lantern, and fumble among the domestics of the house. Why doesn't thLs commission b-gin at the top and go downward? Why not call men like Gen. Miles, for instance, and Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who is the alleged author of the "round robin" circulated at Santiago after Secretary Alger had directed, through his gen eral ignorance of the conditions of tht country, as well as his indiiTeren-ce to the soldiers, that the whole mass .should remove their camps further in land? Had not Roosevelt taken the initiative, at that juncture, and brought the whole subject of the condition ot things at Santiago before the country, through his impetuous, but thoroughly characteristic action, the Lord only knows how greatly the death list would have been Increased. The commission proceeds upon the plan of calling th& defense first — and then making its re port. There was a speciousness in th« grand flurry made by the president In his early calls upon men who, h* must have known in advance, could not serve on the commission. That wa.s politics. When the declinations began to came in he turned the palma of his hands upward toward the skiea, exclaiming, "I can't get what I want; I must take what I know I can set," and so he accumulated, into a nu^i^er nine correlation of forces, the present so-called investigation committee. It was really a very pretty performance 1 , and he capped the climax by placing Grenville M. Dodge at the head of it! The other day Dr. L. L. Seaman, oi New York, who had, it was alleged talked rather giibiy to certain eon^ :-pondents while in the field, in regard to what he styled in these interviews THE ST. PAUL GLO3E — -TUESDAY OCTOBER 18, 1893. "Algerian" methods, was called upon to make good his allegations. lie was very weak physically when he appear ed before the commission, and in a good condition to be bulldozed. Dr. Seaman declared emphatically that the government did not provide proper food for the sick soldiera in hospital nor for the convalescents. He ad mitted, however, that he had failed to make any requisitions for supplies out of the regular schedule, because h^ had been informed by seme of his su perior officers that it would be of no use for a subordinate like himself to ask for these delicacies; ttoat it would be a mere waste of effort on hl3 part because they would not be allowed. This statement seemed to please thr commission mightily. Gen. Beaver, particularly, is represented as rubbing his sides with much satisfaction and exclaiming: "You don't get things iv an army without a requisition. How did you expect to get these supplies? Did you think the depot commissary was going to come peddling them around to you with a delivery wagon?" This question is reported to have been actually put to Dr. Seaman, and Dr. Seaman is represented as having replied that he did not think it neces sary to answer It. Dr. Seamamffas right. The question asked by Gen. Beaver, if it was asked as reported, was impudent and inso lent. With this definition of it, it is un necessary to add that it was altogether undignified; but it is essential 'for the enlightenment of the public to further add that It fairly represents the spirit in which this investigation is being prosecuted. When Dr. Seaman had bee-n informed by his superior officers that it was absolutely impossible to secure for the patients, by requisition, the articles that he desired for the pro motion cf their health and comfort, it would have been folly for him to render himself obnoxious, as well as ridiculous, by proceeding further. He did not occupy the position of inde pendence which Mr. Roosevelt held when he prepared his "round robin." The commission is now engaged in jurketing among the places where the former camps existed. It would have cost the government far less if the commission, remaining in Washington, had summoned competent and suf ficiently fearless men in speaking the truth, from those camps, to testify, rather than make an ostentatious cir cuit of them. It is clearly a foregone conclusion that the whitewash to be applied to Alger, and the management of the war department, will be of that thick kind that resembles plaster, mixed with hair, and warranted not to crack in unexpected places. Go to, Neighbor. The congress to be elected next month will not, In the ordinary course of events, have anything to do with the pea^e negotiations with Spain. The members will not assume of fice until March 4, and will not probably meet before December, 1899. Therefore, the elec tion of a Republican houae is desirable, for its influence upon Spain, not because the members should have any voice In the set tlemcmt with Spain, but as a vote of con fidence In the government. — St. Paul Dispatch. The frankness of the Republican Dis patch is commendable. It has discov ered that the congressmen who will be elected in November, 189S, will prob ably not meet before December, 1899. It is true, as it admits, that their term of office begins March 4 next. The vot ers are asked to bear these two facts in mind and then remember the Maine and forget Alger. By doing 1 these things and electing a Republican con gress some influence, the Dispatch in sists, will be had upon Spain during the pendency of peace negotiations. Haven't we sufficiently influenced Spain already? Can a Spaniard change his nature easier than the leopard his spots? Won't he fence as readily with our peace commissioners, won't he struggle as hard to save his skin, won't he Manana the commissioners daily, won't he do all these things if a Democratic congress is elected just the same as if the next house were Re publican? The voters in this country are not accustomed to giving a vote of confi dence to a government unless they have the fullest confidence in it. And have they complete confidence in a "govern ment" which continues in office such a man as Alger? And, while we are asking our con temporary questions, we will ask it this one: Won't our peace commis sioners be more particular about the terms of their negotiations if a Demo cratic rather than a Republican con gress is prepared thirteen months from now to scrutinize their labors? Sagasta and the people of Madrid would, if the Dispatch's logic is good, promptly retire to their holes if a Re publican congress were elected. We might insist that, in the event of the election of a Demo cratic congress, they would do more — they would pull their holes in after them. But we forbear, for the reason that no more of a demon stration can be made of the one prop osition than of the other. What Sagiasta and his cronies will do, think or say, after inspecting our election returns on the night of >Toy. 8, is a matter of little consequence to Americans. They owe a duty to them selves which they can best discharge by ignoring, as they have done sl^ee the birth of the republic, the effect of their actions upon "foreign capitals." Unjust Differentials. The Globe prints this morning an editorial from the Chicago Inter Ocean on the subject of the controversy which rrust prevail bo long as the injustice practiced by the Canadian Pacific asainst the American trans continental railroads is allowed to con tinue. It is substantially an indorse ment of The Glob e'a position re peatedly set forth in these col umns. This ie not a local matter, af fecting St. Paul and the lines which bavc their eastern points here. It is one which affects every transportation Interest associated with transcontinen tal traffic. The Canadian Pacific, as a well fed and well trained English bull pup, is capable of squaring its shoul ders in a contest with almost any of its competitors on this side of the line so long as the law-making power of this government persists in yielding to specially favored local interests, or refuses to take vigorous hold of the intruder and teach him a lesson of fair play. Surely something ought to be done to overcome the difficulties which stand In the way of competi tion to the Pacific coast on a basis that shall be found reasonable to all concerned, as well as permanent. Is Public Examiner Kenyon Honest? The office of Public Examiner was created in IS7B, 'tho appointment to be made by th» governor, for the term of three years, of a person competent as a skilled a> countant and well versed as an expert in the thoory and practice of bookkeeping. The law gives him almost unlimited power in the examination of the accounts of public officers, state and county. The public examiner has authority, without prior notice, to visit each of the banking, savings, and other moneyed corporations created under the laws of thi3 state, and thoroughly examine Into their affairs and ascertain their financial condition at least once in each year. It shall be his duty to carefully inspect and verify the validity and amount of securities 1 and assets held by such institutions.—Ex tracts from the Minnesota Legislative Manual, 1897, page 315, If Keny<*i j a honest and John Lind is dishonest, w*hy doesn't the hone3t man proceed against the dishonest man? Is Kenyon honest? CONGRESS. To The St. Paul Globe: The ruling tendencies of American thought will probably be manifested in the result, of , the next congressional elections. It is to be hoped that the tendencies thus revealed will be such as to merit the deliberate ap proval of mankind. The contending forces in the electoral canvas now progressing may be properly, though not with complete ac curacy, described as "liberalism" and "com mercialism." Liberalism, championed by the Democratic party, seeks to maintain and enlarge human freedom. It contends for a reliance upon the natural laws of social evolution rather than upon artificial plans for directing the energies of society and upon dangerous ex periments la government. The advocates of liberalism plead for a restoration of the natural right of free commerce, for the abo lition of class privilege and for a policy like that which prevailed in the early his tory of the American republic— a policy dominated by a reverence for liberty. The Democracy would tear down the bar riers which, labeled "protection," turn back the commodities with which the world of fers to buy the products of American labor. Such barriers enable certain selfish combina tions cf greedy mortals to practice extor tion under the guise of patriotism. That ar rant fraud which demands possession of the "home market" while plundering every home, betrays its true nature by making that "home market" the trade arena where in it sells at the highest price while under selling abroad the manufacturers against whom it professes an inability to compete. The Democracy, seeking to revive the old time spirit of American institutions, demands the abolition of commercial and Industrial slavery. It wages war upon the unholy combinations which masquerade under the black mantle labeled "trust." It will fight to the death the abuses which enshroud with evil miasma the work of the miner, and have added to the industrial vocabulary the hateful term "sweat shop." Legislation proposed and advocated, by the Democracy seeks to remand society to the control of natural laws. Its scope does not embrace the theory of bribing some one, by the granting of special privileges, to so in vest his capital or mould his enterprises as to supply some supposed benefit to the com monwealth. By the so-called "protective policy" the Republican party lures capital into manufacturing operations. Such opera tions are either naturally profitable or un profitable. , If Drofitable they need no encouragement. If unprofitable, a. losing ventur* Is Imposed as a burned, upon the productive energies of society. A protective tariff is a tax. As the Democratic - congressional platform, adopted at the convention held in the Fourth district, aptly and sententiously says: "No tax ever created wealth." On the contrary, taxes al ways consume wealth. Were the total economic losses sustained by the human raco under the operation of "protection" computed, the sum total would exceed the present wealth of any civilized country. The greatest evil of the protective system of tariff dudes I 3 that they rest with crushing weight upon tfc« consumer. Such duties create a condition wherein a man pays tribute according to the measure of his own personal needs and not in proportion to his means, nor to the service rendered him by the government. A man with a large family, though pocr, pays more tax and subsidy than a richer man with a small family. The burden is cast upon the poor. A protective tariff also has the result of unjustly distributing the wealth produced by labor. During the last quarter of a century the states west of the Alleghany mountains have produced a vast preponderance of all the economic wealth which has resulted from the toil of the masses. Naturally, we should expect to learn that those states had bean growing rich more rapidly than the others and that the per capita Increment of annual gains in wealth loomed up grandly -as com pared to that disclosed by the census re turns gathered in the Atlantic states. Such is not the fact Strangely enough, the re verse Is true. Wealth does not stay wh^re it is produced. Thoae who produce the wealth have it not. No, they are less prosperous than their brethren in New England, New York and New Jersey. The latter are' lend ing money and the Western farmer, mechanic and tradesman are borrowers. Their East ern brethren collect the major portion of the nation's annual increment of wealth and then lend it at interest to the real producer, and the one justly entitled to its ownership. This injustice, silently, but surely, filching weaith from the bounteous West, has produced grievous hardships. As the cause waa not evident, the discontent naturally arising from these hardships, found expression in various political movements not always based upon a scientific or even an intelligent theory. Fcr example, th,e "subtreasury" scheme for storing cereals and the various plans of monetary inflation may be traced to this blind, unreasoning, yet justly existing dis content. The people of the entire country are also Justly enraged at the conduct of the "pro tected" manufacturers In associating them selves together in vast combinations which limit the output of factory products, fix an extortionate price thereon and plunder the consumer most relentlessly. The tariff has built up those combinations. It is the trviafy servant of the "trusts." It shelters them from the only competition which they are powerless to destroy. All of the Interest* subsidized by "protection" show an alarming disregard of the rights of labor. They are labor oppressors. The formation of a new "trust" is always followed by a procedure which the managers call "the introduction of certain economies." Amcng these "econo mies" we always find a reduction of wages. As they prosecute their operations they close certain factories to decrease the general out put and discharge a great number of em ployes. Meanwhile the laborer finds th« price of all "trust" products raised, while his own wages either decline or cease. Can it be wondeTed at that labor ia discontented? In the year 1892 the "protected" iron works of Andrew Carnegie witnessed a bloofy com bat. Recently the owners of bituminous c-al mines in the state of Illinois, wishing to realize more and more of the financial fmita of "protection," cut down the wages of the miners to the starvation point, undertook to import negro workmen from Southern states, and a bloody riot ensued. What a ccin inentory are these frightful scenes up,"n the whole system of protective tariff lawi! Republican legislation plunders the farmer. the artisan and all other consumers to pour wealth Into the coffers of the manufacturer and the mine owner. The beneficiaries of thta policy organize the "trusts" and flagel late the laborer. While engaged in these highly dubious pursuits they loftily style themselves "the business interests of the country." Under that title they demand the control of legislation. The spirit which they display, their cupidity and their arrogance, find acquiescence only because of the spirit of commercialism which the Republican lead ers have unwisely fostered. The Democracy, seeking to elevate the man above the dollar, to liberate the industrial masses from a grinding bondage, In the name of lib eralism, the aaontfqt of the next congress. E S, —Democrat St. Paul, Oct. H, 1898. Unjust Differentials. An objectionable feature of the protocol c-f the Canadian acd United States commis sioners to the Quebec conference ia that it is calculated Ito assure to the Canadian Pa cific railway a right of "differentials" agaiuct lines owned by United States citizens and engaged in carrying goods acd passengers between the Pacific coast aiid points east of the Mississippi. The protocol proposes that there lavora .to the Canadian Pacific shall ensure, wlthput regard to rulings of the interstate commerce commission. The case ftgainatl the Canadian Pacific is aggravated by consideration of the circum stances under which the United States roads were fored into granting "differentials." The British and Dominion governments Jointly pay the Canadian Pacific $300,000 a year for the maintenance of a line of steamships be tween San Francisco and the Canadian ter minus of the Pacific. By reason of this year ly bounty and of the control of some West ern United States reads,, purchased or leased by the Canadian Pacific, the directors of the last named read are enabled to bid for traffic between our Atlantic and Pacific ports on terms which are ruinous to our roads and would have been ruinous to the Canadian Pacific itself were it not upheld by the subsidy and by other favors granted to It by the British and Dominion governments. And even with these advantages in its favor the rates offered to passengers and shippers of freight would have been unprofitable to the Canadian Pacific. It was, In plain terms, a case of sandbagging. The Canadian Pacific, redylng upon its governmental boun ties and freedom from taxation, deliberately bid for United States trade, so as to threat en ruin to our roads. The alternative of fered by the Canadian Pacific was the grant ing it of "differentials." Our roads con sented, because they dared not refuse. But now that the United States roads have grown stronger, they are anxious to recede from a compact made under commercial duress. The interstate commerce commission has practically decided against such "differen tials." With less than their usual shrewd ness, however, the United States road 3 which benefited from the rulings of the commission agreed to submit their cause to a further hearing by three arbitrators. The chief argu ments presented to the arbitrators in behair of the United States roads may be con densed thus: It Is inequitable and against sound national policy to grant such favors to a competing foreigner as are not granted to competing lines owned by the citizens of this country. For example, the distance from Chicago to San Francisco by the Illinois Central route is about 3,400 miles. The distance between the same points via Omaha and Ogden is about 2,357 miles. By ths Santa Fe route it is about 2,577 milea. Yet the Illinois Cen tral and the Santa Fe ask no '•differential" from the line running the shorter route through Omaha and Ogden. Bach company goes Into the open market and competes for freight and passenger traffic on its own mer its. Why, then, should the Canadian Pa cific, which by using United States lines to Minneapolis and then shipping United States freight and passengers via Winnipeg and Manitoba, over a route of 3.2C0 miles, de mand, "differentials?" But for the bounties and privileges r:?fv.rred to the Canadian Pacific could no^ ship a pouixi of freight or carry a single passenger through United States territory. Nowhere except in the United States is an alien line of railway or of steamships permitted to interfere with the domestic carrying trade. It was well said by counsel for the United States lines: The great nations of the earth that send their ships to this country loaded with merchandisa far New York, and then desire to send them to New Orleans or G-alveston in order to get a return cargo of cotton or grain, are not permitted to take freight from New York to New Orleans or Gtalveston at any rate. They are absolutely prohibited from participating in the American coast traffic. This is done in order to protect our coast ing trade by a law which prevents foreign bottoms from entering this traffic. With such a law on our statute books for the protec tion of th£ shipping business along the edges of our country, is it at all surprising that th ; ; American railroads seriously object to freight cars of foreign bottoms being permitted to do the inland business ot lUe country through a foreign land at lower rates than the domes tic lines are permitted to carry the traffic for themselves? The United States roads paid $43,000,000 as taxes during the last fiscal year, and during this year will pay about $2,000,000 more than that sum aa their contribution to war ex penses. The Canadian Paclfio pays a mere bagatelle into the federal treasury. It runs cars and engines built in Canada and manned by Canadians who work for less than United States rates of wages, and it runs them over lines In American territory built by Americans and manned by Americans, the profits of the Canadian corporation and the wagss of its operators being spent in Canada, though both are earned mainly by use of United States trackage. It is to be hoped that the board of arbitra tion, before which the case now is pending, will confirm the ruling of the interstate com merce commission. But whatever the present result may be, the senate should give an em phatic denial to the unjust claim of the Canadian Pacific when the protocol of th 9 Quebec conference comes before It for em bodiment in a treaty. — Chicago Inter Ocean. True Odd Things. From the Chicago Journal. The United States and Germany ere the only two great poVers of th© world that have no postal savings banks. An engineer declares that 60,000 people now do the work with the aid of machinery which needed 16,000, C00 persons to do a few years ago. It Is said that cowbells are produced in only four factories in the United States aad are made Just the same as they were 100 years ago, and sound the same. The largest cannon in the world, was taken by the British when India was conquered. The cannon was aast about the year 1500 and was the work~of a chief named Chuleby Koomy Khan, of Ahmednugger. The inside of the gun is fitted up with seats and is a favorite place for British officers to go for a noonday smoke. Frozen milk is no longer a novelty in Europe. Milk is taken when fresh and fro zen in bricks of different sizes, and sold by size. The milk is said to be more hygienic than liquid milk. Physician s' carriages have the right of way in the streets of Berlin. The theaters of Paris have popular rep resentations on certain days, when the seats cost only a quarter or half the usual price. For the hide of a full-grown giraffe, great ly sought after in Africa, for whip and san dal making, the native hunters get from $15 to $25. Chinese Regrets. This is how the editor of a paper in Pekin, Chinu, declines a manuscript: "Illustrious brother of the sun and moon! L/ook upon the slave who falls at thy feet, who kisses the earth before thee and demands of thy charity permission to speak and live. "We have read thy manuscript with delight. By the bones of our ancestors, we swear that never have we encountered such a master piece. Should we prinit it, his majesty, the emperor, would order us to take it as a cri terion and never again to print anything which was not equal to it. As that would not be possible before ten thousand years, all trenrbling we return thy manuscript and beg thee ten thousand pardons. See — my hand is at my feet and I am the slave of thy ser- Tant. —"The Editor." Recapitulation of the War. War began April 21. 1838 War closed Aug. 11, 18^8 Duration of hostilities 118 days Expense of actual warfare $141,000,010 Americans killed 279 Americans wounded I,<W5 Spaniards killed 2.159 Spaniards wounded 2,948 Vessels destroyed (American) o Vessels destroyed (.Spanish) 35 Square Pop- Territory L/oat by Spain — Miles, ulation. Cuba 41,655 1.631,000 Porto Rico 3,670 806,708 Guam 150 8,000 Philippines 52,650 7,000,000 —Chicago Tribune. Putting; It oni a Csusli Baals. There are intelligent Indians who Insist that their civilization would be more effectual if so many persons were not trying to make it a dividend-paying enterprise.— Washington Star. Wood Is No Stick. Gen. Wood la going to create taxes at Santiago and spend the proceeds on Improve ments. In American cities much of the money so raised is spent on bosses. — Balti more Herald. ♦lakes It luanimons. James J. Corbett says he is "heartily tired of mere pugilistic talk."^ That makee it unanimous, them.— Chicago Tlmes-Her*ld. Lost Relatives Showing Up. The Chicago woman is lonely this week who ha 3 not got at least three uncles and six cousins visiting her.— Chicago Record. No Time for Jesting:. Holding a p3ace Jubilee in Chicago during a political campaign is carrying a Joke too far.— Detroit News. A M«n's Sn?ggeat3on. If a woman -wears a black hat she ought to dust it.— Atchison Globe* IN WOMAN- S REALM. THE CLUB CORNER. The Globe desires to make its club cor ner a clear and faithful reflector of Minne sota organizations, and to this end extends to them an urgent invitation to uso its space as au open parliament. The roster of clubs, which Is about completed, shows that many have taken up the same themes of study for the year. It will be helpful to the clubs themselves and instructive and interesting to others to compare the results of these va rious discussions and researches. If each or ganization will forward to the department the questions discussed at its meeting and the decision reached, the lnforma'ion will be giv en its proper setting by reference to this club roster. This work will be further fa cilitated, both by the club secretaries and the department, if those who have not done so will send to us copies of their current pro grammes. Thia morning the Illinois federation meets In the first session of its annual convention. It is only within the last year or two that these assemblies have undertaken to deal with serious questions— such as industrial dif ficulties and educational problems; but this year not only will much time and discus sion be given to the industrial condition as affecting women and children, but the federa tion is llke'.y to pass resolutions asking that the law makers of Illinois adopt measures relating to parental and much-needed schools. Tomorrow there will be an exhibit of house hold furnishings, and Thursday will be giv en over to club reports and revision of by laws. That evening the Cook County club will give a reception at the Grand Pacific. Friday will come the election of officers. • • • Mlas Lucinda Daniels will represent the Pairmcunt. Minn., Travel class at the an nual convention. Her constituent club was organized five years ago this month, for the purpose of mutual Improvement through literary pursuits. The Castilian club, of Boston, is devoted to the study of Spanish. This is not a freak born of the war, for the organization is ten years old, and has never deviated from the study of Spanish language, literature and history. More than all, Its researches have been so thorough and original that their results have been summed up in nineteen volumes, which have their place in the pub lic library. Miss Margaret J. Evans, president of the Minnesota federation, has just been elected a member of the American board, being the first woman to be so honored. She is prin cipal of Carleton college, Minnesota, and has been president of the Congregational wom an's board of domestic missions for fifteen years. She has studied at Oxford, Berlin and Heidelberg.— New York Tribune. • • • '"We want to have the show properly benched," said Mrs. Leland Norton, presi dent of the Chicago Oat club, which is at present preparing an exhibit. "The trouble with so many shows has been that the eats have been benched with poultry and pigeons —that they have been pet animal shows in stead of cat shows. We want to make this show a society affair. We shall bench the cats nicely and have the hall In such a con dition that women can wear their best gowns. We want to make It a parlor show. We shall secure, probably, a large storeroom downtown. The cat show ought to be a success." The Chicago Cat club is saLd to be the only one in the country. There was a New York club which lived long enough to give two shows, but has since gone out of ex istence. Distance is no longer a guarantee against quarrels— at least among women — for a Lon don woman is having a lusty squabble with a woman in Philadelphia, and all over the London club of Eachelor girls. Says the Eng lish writer: "Time was when we should have flat ly refused to believe that wcmoa volun tarily, gave up their chances of becoming wives and mothers in order to live ths sslfish and useless life of the bachelor about town. It is still difficult to believe that the bachelor HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE. Don Jaime, son of Don Carlos, and heir to his pretensions to the Spanish crown, now in service in the Russian cavalry, was edu cated at Beaumont college, near Windsor. One day an English boy was seen kicking the young prince, and wa3 asked by one of the masters what Don Jaime had done to merit Buch treatment. "Nothing, sir," was the reply; "but, you see, he may become king of Spain one day, and I should like to bo able to say that I had once kicked the king of Spain."— New York Tribune. Mrs. Younglove — These women who write about "How Husbands Should Be Managed" — do you suppose they manage their husbands any better than we do? Mrs. Elders— Do I? Why, pshaw! child, don't you know they haven't any husbands? — Brooklyn Life. • » • "Who," demanded President McKlnley at Omaha; "who will embarrass the govern ment by sowing seeds of dissatisfaction among the brave men who stand ready to serve and die, if need be, for their country?" Well, it. mus: bo confessed that Mr. Mc- Kinley'a investigation committee are doing as litfle as possible to embarrass the gov ernment unetining the man who appointed them), but even they occasionally stumble upon the real seeds of dissatisfaction and the man who sowed them. Gen. Graham, for example, in his testimony, attributed the sickness in Camp Alger to the incompetence of the volunteer officers, and particularly to the civilians on brigade and regimental staffs. — New York Post. • • • Mr. McKinley believes In moderation in all things. He said at Omaha that in dealing with our new international problems we uiU3t "avoid the temptation of undue aggression and aim to secure only such results as will promote our own and the general good." In his first message to congress Mr. McKinley said that seizing foreign territory in cc.tain cases named would be "criminal aggression." He has now got down to "undue aggression." which is simply the amount of aggression that we think fit.— -New York Evening Post. Decidedly explicit and embarrassing to the government are the indignant remarks of Pointed Retorts. From the London Telegraph. At a dinner table in London the conversa tion turned on public speaking. Curran stated that he could never address an audience for a quarter of an hour without moistening hla lips. "1 have the advantage of you there, Curran," said Sir Thomas Turton. "I spoke the other night In the house of commons for five hours on 'The Nabob of Oude.' and never felt the least thirsty." "That Is romarkable. Indeed," replied Curran, "for every oue agrees that it was the driest speech of the session." • ♦ • Two Irish servants discussing the stiff and unbending manners o£ the young lady of the family, agreed that "whan she was a baby her mother must have fed her on boiled pokers, underdone!" • • * A bumptious little man, acting as a steward at athletic sports In Dublin, was assertive In keeping back the crowd, and was thus ad dressed by an angry spectator: "If the con sate was taken out of yez, ye'd be no bigger than a green gooseberry, and ye're as sour as wan already." ♦ • • A fool known as "Jim, the Omadawn," •was a well-known character in Kilkee, the seaside resort in Clare. "Now, Jim," said an upstart to him one day, "tell me the big gest lie you ever told, and I'll treat you to a pint of stout." "Be me bowl, thin," cried Jim, "I say yer honner's a perfect gintlo man." * • • A Dublin lawyer prided himself especially on his library, which he had contrived for his own use, so secluded from the rest of the building that he coald pore over his books iv private quite secure from disturbance. "This is capital," exclaimed a friend who was looking over th« house. "My dear fellow, you could read and study here from morning woman can ever become a recognized fea ture cv our social Uf-\ She must ST< main a phenomenon, selfish and Self-. fU, calling for the pity rather than the envy of those who keep to the beaten track." I'rom the Quaker 0% a woman aiiswera "< r thus: t>-m,L, i 9 i! cry Pasy to call PW'Ple .-elfish \ fj 1 K Why that e P'thet and that of 'u»< should be applied to a woman who supports herself without burdening her relation* I all to S9e. Accusations should be backed by F« .1 thlllk t!lal if th « 'a'r wr.t r ww to sco the inner workli:g« of some of coteries of earnest, Indnstrtov* women, she would be surprised at the aaprit to /-orpa. the mutual charity, the absence of j.rttlne-is which she would tind. Such a lit- -leveiops in us a kind of manliness which includes s:m e of the bmter characteristtea of the oh- : Ad a matter of fa:t, the happy married woman is far more 'tem^li and aaU-castered' than the working spinster— hera being none th .: less selfishness because It |nclud< sc-!f. There are exoeptlora, cf c tune, but not many. Now, modern coaditlona of ilfe cause London and the other big eitftss Is bo fioodfd with female labor. Young, untried giris go out into ihe Held to fight their i-'oor little battle. iJelieve i:i»-, they will stand fai more chance of help from the baeh'-lor woman who has gone thiough hur own strug gle than from the matron who has never looked beyond the four walls of her narrow vineyard. 3ympaxhy is not taught by Inex perience. To cultivate it. as Ru^k.n uyi, 'you mUKt be among human bemgs and think ing about them.' " "AS rrrfkttS SKK I S." What the Delegate* to the National W. C. T. L. (oiivcntiim Think of In. It is twelve years since the national ccn ventlon met in the Northwe.it, iays tJie Union Signal. The convention of 1886 was held in Minneapolis, and now the slit r twin, St. Paul, extends welcoming hands to gre«t us. The official ro3ter is largely < hangei slnco our gathering in Mlnueapo.U. Only one ot the general officers then is an officer now — Mrs. Stevems. St. Paul is beautiful for a tuat'on. A city of 160,000, lying at the gate-way of the f^mms park region of Minnesota, wh.<:h has more inland lakes than the Bame area anywhere in the world. White Bear lak\ n ted for Its Indian legends, and Like Como, ar# within easy driving and street car d s anc\ . the latter situated in one of the mon bautl ful parka in our country, covering ?,0j acies. Fort Snelilng id of great interest in thesw military times. The Minnesota trops ar» loosted there, and the sta:c S.ildlers' he ma is th£re also. The Indian mounds on the Mississippi river afford a wonderful view up and down the river, and ot the city propar and West St. Paul, and no one will want t3 return home without seeing tan hSst r.c M.n nehaha falls. The center of Minneapolis Is ten wli»a distant from the center of St. P-ul, whll« the corporations Join. They are connected by two of the finest electric railways la the world. IMPORTANT SIGKVI.S. By action of the Western Passenger asso ciation, a rate of one and cne-third fere ha* been made for the delegates to the national convention of the W. C. T. U.. which la to be held here Nov. 11-16. It becomes effeo tive only wheu evidence 13 presented to in* joint agent of terminal lines that 100 ox more persons are in actual atttndanc\ hold ing certificates reading for tickets over ter minal lines to the meeting point; and wb«a such certificates are stamped by him, with his official stamp, and hla written signature affixed thereto. Certificates are not kept at ail ttatlon^ therefore delegates 3hould consult lo»al tick et agents, giving timely notice, so that through tickets and certificates may be ready when required. Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens and Miss An;.* Gor don are in Chicago, to remaai until the na tional convention. Mrs. Sttvcna arrived laa: Friday, and, together with the other national officers at the temple, is busily engage! ia completing plans for the annual gatheing at St. Paul. Reserved seats for the national conven tion are selling fast, and all who de*o them should write at once to Mrs. Stella W. Irvine, chairman of the committee on finance. S. ata are reserved only when the m^ney :or the t same Is sent to hre. The price per seat is ' $1, and coupons will be returned to the pur chasers. Send money order or check, not postage stamps. Surgeon Major Seaman, Just back frofti Ponce and Santiago. He bluntly says that 90 ncr cent of the dt<aths from disease wer» murder — pure govern mental neglect. Was th» medical department at fault? No. Wlio, then? "There was no lack of supplies of all sorts. But through the Imbecility, incompetencf and idiocy of the men in the quartermaster'^ department the anppttM were not taken care of or furnished to the men." "Who were these men?" "Sons of general 3, rich men's sons, sons of politicians, and Go<P knows what." Who sowed this seed of dissatisfaction? Did not the president? Did ho not do it In the teeth of protests from army experts, wfro prodicted the very results we now se>e? Tiusa are the questions Mr. McKinley ought to bo asking himself. Instead of addressing his plaintive queries to the public— New York Post. • • • In regard to tiio plague of "soaa of s :n - bodies" inflicted upon the federal army by the war department, Qea. Graham ar ly t Id the war investigating cemmi s on that some o-t" the 3p;vointets became fairly efa.i i-.t. bu; that many of them were Incorrigible-; that their delinquencies were not lepj.tel to tna department, the limit of eerreetioa havlafl consisted of enjoining the offenders to be more careful in the future; and tiut. orally speaking, the porsens t.us f . with staff appointments h.u! DM • d the p. ri od in life when new duties of an Imp riant cha.raci.er c^u!d be readily learn.!. Tins »vi dence agrees exactly with the popular j'..ds ment in regard to the miachl vans . iTeots of the course of the war offlc ::i malting s All appointments largely through tsvoritiMi aud political Influence.— Philadelphia Rac rd • • • Henry W. Peabody, the be-ii cf the o.: y American house ever e-itablished in M says: "There Is no niarke* in the I' pinc3 for any important American pr !uc s. The natives have few wants bejoLd a sr ■ of colored cloth, usually cotton cf a grade." The imperialist organs have . ..;d- n . r . f r ence to this important utter.. that sort have no piace in their pro, .igmdi. — Pittsburg Dispatch. till night, and no human Doing would be one bit the wiser." • • • John Parsons, one of the first Ir sh com missioners of insolvency, w ;»a traveling in a coach witli Lord Norbury, tlie j ing a giotwt, Xorlury sal-! w;,h "Paisous, where would you be Bow !f that gallows had its due?" "Riding alone, N'or bury," was the qvicli reply. • • • A Dublin doctor was a member of a house party in the district in which he had begun his career. One day he was obs«rvtd in a neighboring churchyard. "What is he uo.njj among the graves?" asked oca of the party. "Paying a visit to some of his old patients," replied another. Catnlugae Oddities. A delightful story is told of a bookseller's catalogue in which the following entries ap peared: Patti, Adellna. Life of. Patti, oysteT, how to make. This case Is fully paralleled In t'<e latest volume of the "Hr.gllsh Reference Cata logue," a very important bibJiog-.ar.hical pub lication, whore the following entries appear; Laad, Copper. Metallurgy. Kindly light (N'ewma:i). Poisoning.— Philadelphia Presa. I, lke n Polish Hint. We fear that the n-r.nes of tho o i gent Indians up In the Northwest h&va g'ven tho college boys seme new idea; about col lege yells. Thp^iame of that I ad D| of the Pillager tribe sounds like a Po l»h riot. — Chicago Tim> s-Hera'.d. The Real Hero F«»im<l. The real hero of the naval txittl-* "f San tiago appears to be the Spanish telegrapher who inadvertently prattled over tho w:re about tibe arrival of Admiral Cervera at that port. — Chicago Tribune.