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THE ST. PAUL GLOBE
SUNDAY, JUNE 19, IS9B.
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SUNDAY'S WEATKE2.
Fair; Variable Winds.
K\ the United States Weather Bureau.
MINNESOTA— Pair; variable winds, becom
ing southerly.
IOWA Occasional showers: variable winds.
MONTANA— Fair; southerly winds.
NORTH DAKOTA— Fair; variable winds, be
coming Boutheriy.
BOUTH DAKOTA— Fair; variable winds, be
coming Boutberly.
WlSCONSlN— Generally fair; light northerly
winds, becoxnias variable.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES.
Buffalo 74-78 Cincinnati S4-8S
Bist.in ot-7S New York ti4-GS
> 14 ti"-S4.t'ittsburg &2-S6
YESTERDAY'S MEANS.
Barometer 29.97
Mean temperature 73
humidity 57
Wind ai s> :>. m Northwest
V. ;it:.ir Clear
Maximum temperature 82
Minimum temperature . Gl
Daily range 18
Amount of precipitation (rain) in last
twenty-four hours 0
RIVER ATS A. M.
Danger Gaut;e Change In
Station. Line. Reading. 24 Hours.
Pt. Paul 14 7.:. —0.4
La Crosse 10 9.5 —0.1
Davenport IS 5.8 *0.3 !
St. Louis 30 25.4 *O.C
I,
—Fall. 'Rise.
The river will continue falling steadily |
from St. Paul to Red Wing tonight and Sun- I
day.
Note — Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. —P. F. Lyons, Observer.
TODAY'S EVENTS.
CR A NO— 'Mistakes Will Happen."
METROPOLITAN— Dark.
Bue Ball, Lexington Park— St. Paul vs. Co
ittnibus. 3 P.M.
T.utonia lodge. A. O. U. W., picnic at Ban
holzer's park.
Jlessengers" race to White Bear, 7 AM.
I
ATLANTIC LINEKS.
HBW YORK— Arrived: Thingvalla, Copen
hagen; Lrntoria, Liverpool; Pfninsuia, Lis
bon. Sailed: Campania, Liverpool; Pho
enicia, Hamburg; Yanatoba, Lindon; La.
Brotagne, Havre; Rotterdam, Rotterdam;
'•"urnossia. Glasgow; Fulda, Genoa.
7 >STON — Arrived: Cephalonia, Liverpool.
UVHRPOOLr- Arrived: Bovie, New York;
\Va< Bland, Philadelphia. Sailed: Lucania,
Mew York.
iPHIIiAJOELiPHIA— SaiIed: Belgenland, Liver
pool.
CENOA— Arrived: Kaiser Wilhelm 11., New
York.
GLASGOW— Arrived: Hesli-x. r.altimoie.
Sailed: Amhoria, New York.
UARSEUjLiES— SaiIed: Karamaraia, Xew
York: PaUia, New York.
HAVRE -Sailed: La I'ourgogne, New York.
BREIMEN— SaiIed: Koneigen, New Ycrk.
ANTWERP— SaiIed: Wt-sternland, New York.
The Democratic State T.cket.
Governor JOHN LIND, Brown eciunty
Lieut. Gov J. M. BOWLER, Renville
S <■. Stite J. .1. HEINRICH3, Hennepin
Treasurer ALKX. M'KINNOON, Po:k
Auditor GKORGE N. LANPHERK, Clay
Attorney General. .JOHN F. KELLY, Ramsey
Clerk Supreme Court.Z. H. AUSTIN', St. Lou'a
Judges THOMAS CANTY, Hecm-pin
Sui.nme DANIEL BUCK. Blue Earth
Court ;WM. -MITCHELL, Winona
fcZ'The Globe's Motto: Live News,
latest News, Reliable News — No Fake
War News. \
Xi^-The Only Newspaper in the North
west That Prints the Full Associated
Press News Report
What Cervera will most need before
the end of another week is a load of ico.
Somebody could make a fortune, per
haps, by correctly locating the Cadiz
flt-et daily.
The war bond appears to have tem
porarily pushed the postal savings bank
off the track.
Well, isn't it about time to turn Fitz
hu^h Lee and Joe Wheeler loose on
those Spaniards?
Well, Rear Admiral Camera, you will
get your picture taken if you come over
to this fide of the Atlantic.
.If the New York Journal only had
<*ntrol of things it could end this or
any other war in thirty days.
«
Somebody must be puncturing the
tires of the rubber trusts. Most of them
appear to be collapsing together.
Mr. Quay would just as soon Mr.
"Wanamaker should go to war, but he
does not want him to go to war with
the head of the Quay family.
A New York paper states that they
catch big fish at Guantanamo. Anyhow,
a whole lot of American newspapers az-e
catching big fish stories in that vicin
ity.
And now it is stated that all. the post
masters' salaries will have to be raised
because the soldier boys and their
sweethearts are exchanging so many
letters.
The number of fiction writers is con
stantly increasing. For instance, the
circulator of the New York Press
■writes that that paper is rsad by 600,003
people a day.
A New Jersey man caught a lotfjsl^r
four feet long the other day. If he \i.l
gone over to Brooklyn he would haLe
found no trouble to catch a lot of them
over six feet long.
The young ladies of puritanical Wel
ltsley appeared in tights the other
evening in presenting "Midsummer
Night's Dream," which was all ritrht
enough, but scarcely anybody thought
Wellesley would thiak it all right
I enough.
Some Lessons of tli9 War.
The war in progress today is likely to
i prove a source of large educational
! benefit to the people of the United
States, even though the lesson shall
seem to be an expensive one when the
debt incurred thereby comes to be
footed up and the final accounts bal
j anced.
An entire generation had passed
I since the muster roll of actual war had
i been called within our borders, and
many of the youngest men in the rank 3
now were not born until a decade after
the dawn of peace at Appomattox. To
their childish ears, war was a pleasing
and an exciting tradition; and mingled
with the regret that they were not
j born sufficiently early to participate
: in its glories has doubtless existed, with
i many, the hope that they might them-
I selves be afforded an opportunity to
| manifest their devotion to the flag of
i their fathers, as well as their own, and
j to win in their own right some of the
I honors of war. Hence, when the pres
. ent war was so unexpectedly precipi
j tated, the martiaj spirit in the breasts
j of these young men was quickly arous
i ed, and they promptly, and even eager
i ly, responded to the call to arms, mean
; while inadequately comprehending Hie
scope of the peril and hardship which
real war entails.
The first reflection of, this truth
jis manifest in the stories of pri
i vation and discomfort already com
ing forward from the distant camps.
I To older ears these seem like an echo
from the tented fields of 1861. The
first lesson, therefore, which the war
conveys is being learned by these
young men, who, in large part, repre
j sent those peculiar forces, distributed
tiiroughout the entire country, which
demanded, and as it sometimes seemed
j almost unreasonably, that the war
I should be undertaken no matter at
what cost. The lesson here learned is
that war involves sacrifice, privation,
destruction, disease and death; and the
survivors, on their return to their
homes, will become, during the next
generation, the nation's monitors in
the interests of peace.
The next lesson is being learned by
the people as a whole, namely, that no
nation should go to war until it is pre
pared to do so. During the past fif
teen years congress has been annually
appropriating large sums of money for
the re-creating of our navy. The money
has been honestly expended by the ad
ministrations of both the great politi
cal parties and with entire freedom
from scandals of any sort. The result
Is a family of noble battleships and
cruisers of which the nation Is justly
proud. It is only reasonable to "believe
thait had not the United States been
possessed of this magnificent aggrega
tion of ships, the war between this
country and Spain would not now be
prevailing. So far as our navy is con
cerned, otfr preparation for war in
times of peace has proved a wise pol
icy. We were ready to join issue on
the seas, and the result is no longer in
doubt.
Turning to the army, however, we
find a different condition of things pre
vailing. The country has felt secure,
even to the point ot inordinate boast
fulness, in the fact that the so-called
national guard, consisting of the mi
litia in the several states, afforded
guarantee of safe defense against any
foe that might venture to assail us.
Suddenly we awoke to the realization
that between the federal and the state
authorities a wide gap exists. The wo
ful exhibition presented by some of the
most "cracked" of the "crack" regi
ments in the East affords evidence of
the fact that, after all, the national
guard is a slender thread indeed when
a test of its strength against the red
tape of the war department comes to
be made. In the case of the famous
I Seventh, of New York, regimental
pride stood out against the instinct of
duty to the national cause. The show
soldiers of the holiday parade were not
to be coerced by the federal regula
tions. They would go only in a body,
with their own regimental officers, or
the country must either continue to ex
ist,-If that were possible, or go to per
j dition, if it were not, without ths aid
I of the luxurious Seventh. Many of its
I members, however, individually enlist
ed, to their credit be it said, buit the
spotless "Seventh" is not "in it." Thus
badly ciippled through internal ex
plosion and far away from the field at
martial glory, the organization is prac
tically disrupted, with a strong prob
ability of its disbandment by Gov.
Black. Thus the situation regarding
the absorption of the state militia by
the federal government remains sub
stantially as it was at the beginning
of 1861. The lesson afforded by the ex
perience with these organizations
j ought to result in a closer understand
ing between the state authorities and
the war department, whereby delay
should not result pending the arrange
ment of trifling details and the nation
meanwhile be denied the services of
this valuable auxiliary to the military
establishment. The_ possibility of sud
den war has been illustrated, and, if
the lessons thus supplied are properly
heeded, the country wilt never again
be found in so unprepared a condition
to meet it.
Accumulators and Distributors.
"A minor purpose, but still one not
to be neglected," said Matthew Carpen
ter, addressing a class graduating in
law, "is the accumulation of wealth,
but, unfortunately, on this I can give
you no counsel, for it requires faculties
with which lam not endowed." Burns
gave sage advice to "gather gear by
every wile that's justified by honor,"
but he, too, lacked the faculty of gath
.ering and holding. Still he did not seek
that favorite refuge of the envious,
free-handed impecunious and affect a
proud disdain for riches, for he realized
their chief value, the power they give to
enjoy "the glorious privilege of being
independent." Lowell, at the mature
age of nineteen, hesitated about enter
ing a divinity school because "no man
ought to be a minister who has not
money enough to support him besides
his salary. For the minister of God
should not be thinking of his own and
his children's bread when dispensing
the bread of life;" but "we need not fall
down and worship it."
Roughly classified men, and women,
too, fall into two classes In relation to
wealth. There are the accumulators
and the distributors. The distinction
lies in the rare faculty, possessed by
the former, of holding on to money, ac
cumulating it, making it earn more
money by planting judiciously each
g rnering. and making it yield ten-fold;
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE SUNDAY JUNE 19, 1898.
adding ever to the increasing store, and
hoiding fast by it. They may be mere
hold-fasts, lacking the sense that sees
opportunities for profitable investment
or the nerve to utilize them, but guard
ing- the pennies until they grow into
dollars. Or they may be those who,
like Lowell's factotum, had "eyes all
around his head for the main chance,"
and keep the "nimble sixpence"
catching dollars. But whether they
have in large or small degree the fac
| ulty of "making money," they one and
I all have the power of stout repression
I on desire and keep what they g-et with
tenacious grasp. They are those whom
j the distributors call "stingy," "penur
ious," "mean." They are the, "tight
fisted," the "close," but who consider
themselves the prudent, the fore-hand
ed, the frugal, the thrifty.
The distributors, forming the great
majority, find themselves capable of
getting money, but utterly incapable
of holding onto it. Always is there
some ungratitled want or wish, to grat
ify which money is simply the indis-
I pensable means. They ride desire with
a loose rein. No snaffle-bit ever throws
It upon its haunches, and nothing ever
checks its speed, except an empty
purse, and r.ot then if illusive credit
fills the vacuum. They are never of
the very poor, nor do they ever come
within hailing distance of the viry
rich. They form the great middle
class fringed on the lower side by
poverty and on the upper by wealth.
Thoy live comfortably, annoyed only
by inability to get this or that to in-'
crease their comfort, content" if they
are able to pay their way, to "keep
their heads above water;" raising their
families, hut unable to "give them a
start" in the world; no dowry for the
girls, no capital for the boys, and no
estate for heirs to quarrel over.
Through their hands, in and out of
them, the vast current of the money
of the world flows, losing nothing in
volume as it passes, keeping in motion
the wheels of industry and active the
mass of exchanges.
Nor can one quarrel with the eco
nomics of this distribution of faculties.
Kqually disadvantageous would it be
were all either accumulators or dis
tributors. In either case there could
be none of the massing of capital
which, united with executive ability,
creates our great industries, builds rail
ways and steamship lines, constructs
and manages great industrial plants,
mills, factories, applying the inventions
that, motored by wealth, lessen cost of
production, and, in its reaction, in
creases the distributive capacity of the
distributors. Thus the law of com
pensation holds its own, and they who
get to keep minister to the ease and
comfort of those who only get to spend.
Good drain News.
That was a good piece of news that
The Globe printed yesterday regard
ing the reduction of the rates for grain
shipments which the Great Northern
railroad proposes to put into effect
immediately. It means more to the
farmers and shippers of Minnesota and
the Northwest than anything that has
happened since wheat began to climb
skyward. Upon the basis of the crop
of last year it means that upwards of
| $750,000 will remain in the pockets of
i the producers that otherwise would be
j absorbed by that particular railroad
I for the transportation of their prod
ucts. The fact that this sum is about
?COO,OOO more than what the railroad
commission believed to be a proper
concession on the part of the railroad,
as developed during the progress of
the Steenerson ca.se, makes it appar
ent that this move had long been un
der contemplation by the Great North
ern. It illustrates the highest type of
railroad management and the worth of
a well-defined policy in the develop
ment of traffic and the growth of a
country through which a system op
erates. Incidentally, it conveys a hint
to the Eastern railroads in general,
whose lack of attention to details re-
I lated to economical management and
business skill has ever been the won
der of Western managers. It conveys
a lesson which even political agitators
l might ponder, with gratifying results
I to the communities which they vex by
j their vociferation.
It is no profound secret to those ra
tional beings who study the reports and
operations of railroads for purposes of
! information, how this one railroad has
| been able to lop off three-quarters of a
j million of dollars without crippling its
revenues or impairing the effectiveness
of the service which it is bound to
render the public. Economy in man
agement, minimum of expenditure and
maximum of business results are at the
j bottom of it all. We know now what
I the extraordinary density of traffic, of
j which we have heard, on the Montana
division means to the farmers of Min
nesota and Dakota, wnen its money
value is distributed to them in this
| form. The significance of the building
i of the Fosaton branch to Duluth, which
! reduces by a hundred miles the distance
between the wheat fields of the Red
river valley and Duluth and the Twin
Cities, is now readily comprehended.
The rights of way granted for exten
sions here and there can now be re
garded with complacency where before
they may have been questioned.
The Northern Pacific will naturally
I meet this cut in rates, and another
j $300,000 will be saved to the producers.
| making over a million dollars In all.
; The new rates will go into effect July
| 15. Letter has disappeared, but we sti'.l
have left some things for which we
may be thankful.
Three Gay Pulpit' Jingoes.
Perhaps it may occur to some folks
who keep abreast with the; operations
of Divinity, as revealed through the
breathings of pome of our pulpit ora
tors, that jingoism has become wofully
entangled with theology in these later
j cays. One thing, however, ought to be
said in favor of these representatives
of their respective creeds, and that ss,
they have located the responsibility for
the existing war, and they are not
j afraid to sneak rig-ht out in meeting
j and indicate who is to blame for it.
Now, for instance, there is the Rev.
Justin D. Fulton, of Brooklyn, N. V.,
who, it is said, recently dtclared that
he "had stayed with God all day Sun
day" and was convinced that the war
was of divine origin, that the conquest
! by the United States of Cuba and the
Philippine islands would be the doom
of the Romish church, whatever that
rr.ay be. It must be said of Dr. Ful
ton that, if he tells the truth— and juot
here a doubt !s inclined to intrude it
self — he spent his Sunday in very good
company; but those who know this
effervescent divine (ourselves among
the number) know that his-^Ǥt*bn that
occasion must have* been sadly bored,
and if He really did give away to Dr.
Fulton the secret of His purposes in
bringing the war about, it was assured
ly done in a final effort to get rid of H:s
tormentor. The doctor is a good stay
er—we all know that — ;sreeially in the.
presence of a sideboard witix some- '
thing on, the side, preferably milk
punches. |t seems to run in the mind
of the writer that once upon a time a
clerical gentleman, carrying some such
name as the doctor's, and residing in
his present: locality, fell under the in
fluence of those seductive but soporific
dococtions,- ar*d was subsequently
churched by his deacons, who undoubt
edly, themselves, possessed some
knowledge of (ho power of the beverage
mentioned.- However, that was long
'■bffore th* wags" and anterior to the |
doctor's recent important interview.
Then, again, the Rev. Dr. R. S. Mac-
Arthur, of New York, seems to be in
spirod with the knowledge that the Al
mighty has "thrown the Philippines at
our feet" in order to compel us to work
the savages down there into some sort
of a spiritual leaven. God knows that
the United States has certainly demon
strated, in its work of dealing with the |
native American Indian, what the na
tion can do with savages. A few are
said to have been saved, spiritually,
and some have been saved corporeally^
but an awful lot of them are dead; and
that is a condition in^which they ap
pear to be most acceptable to the aver
age American citizen %vho has inherited
the Indian's domain.
The Rev. Dr. Thomas Dixon is an
other inspired divine. He, also, is of
New York, which seems to hold a mul
titude of one kind as in the hollow of
the hand. He has, likewise, opened his
thorax to declare that the sugar trust
is all that keeps Hawaii out of our
".domestic fold. But he intimates that,
in the impressive language of his na
tive state of North Carolina, he knows
"doggoned" well that the sugar trust |
won't be "in it" with the Almighty in
the final disposition of the Sand
wiches. Good luck to the sugar trust, .
we may add.if this is one of its mis- j
sions!
Now seriously, wouldn't it be a good
idea to organize a draft brigade (a vol
unteer call would not be effective) of
some of these jingo doctors of divinity"
and transport them to the Hawaiian,
the Philippine and the Canary islands;
first, to indulge in a little solid bush
whacking, lind, after' the conquest, to
take up tfie work of rehabilitation on a
highly moral plane? Dr. Fulton, when
he got started in the preaching cam
paign, would promptly drive many of
the natives into the sea, and that would
be the end of them! Death in the
deep blue sea, or any kind of death, In
fact, would surely be justified as the
means of terminating a prolonged asso
ciation with the, doctor. Dr. Mac A
rthur, dear, beautiful man that he is,
is so captivating, and his bewhiskered
charms are. so unutterably fascinating,
that he verily would have all the Phil
ippine women at his feet. They wouid
concentrate round about him with th»
same eagerness with which moths
congregate around the flame of a
candle; and It goes without saying that
they wouid be immediately spiritualized
and transformed to the angelic state.
They couldn't help it.
After the exploits of Dr. Fulton and
Dr. Mac Arthur, all that might remain
of the natives would doubtless be killed
at the muzzle of Dr. Dixon's gun during I
that excellent gentleman's pursuit of I
his favorite pastime of shooting young I
robins. He would not have to plead
ignorance of the law there in connec
tion with the shooting of the robins.
He would be a law unto himself and
could send back a smile of withering
contempt across the limpid waters
of the Pacific to the authorities of
J Staten Island. And thus the conquest
would be complete.
Something ought really to be done to
relieve these reverend gentlemen o^the
congestion of tcrrafoolery from whicfh
they appear to be so acutely suffering.
The Woolly Man of the West Now
on Exhibition.
Ignatius Donnelly's middle-of-the-road state
ticket may not cut much of a figure in the
election, but it has the merit of consistency
and ought to receive the vote of every sin
cere Populist.— Minneapolis Tribune (Rep.).
Hello! Hello! Be careful, neighbor,
or you will give away the secrets of
the Republican machine, of which you
are a member. Buried in your little
paragraph is a knowledge of what
your party's managers expect from
Donnelly and his bolters' convention.
Your managers expect them to aid
their canvass. They did expect that
Donnelly would hold the Populists in
the middle of the road, but the con
vention must have smelled a mouse,
for it broke away from him.
Forepaugh's circus recently dis
played to the Twin Cities a
wild man from the everglades
of Florida, half Indian, half ne
gro, half what is it? to whom was fed j
raw meat in the presence of a wonder
ing public. As the annunciator of the
Republican circus, the Tribune has now
displayed one oif its side show attrac
tions. The Woolly Man of the West is
on exhibition for the '<sole and exclu
sive benefit," as the show bills have it.
of the Populists. The Republican man
agers will gather in the profits of the j
exhibition. They will not feed their j
Woolly Man on raw meat so long as ■
gold and silver are good^nd recognized j
coin in Dakota county — nor will they
feed him in public. Certain business
features of the management of all or
derly conducted circuses must always
necessarily be settled in private, be
yond the glare of the sunlight and tfofe
gaze of the too curious crowd. r
A Liability, Not an Asset.
Beforo we conclude to keep the
Philippines — which we have not yet got
— we may consider, with possible profit, I
the experience in annexation which
Japan has gained as tho resatt of the
war with China. In addition to the
money indemnity, exacted cf China,
Japan obtained the cession of the isl
and of Formosa. '' It lies several hun
dred miles south of Japan, has an av?a
of about 15,000 square miles and a popu- !
ia-.ion estimated at a million and a half, i
The Chinese lhad dominated the native
tribes as Sp«in has tha Malays of the
Philippines, with them
as the Spaniards did, and having con- !
stant conflicts With the wilder, more j
warlike natives of the remoter portions, i
as Spain has had with the Malays ar.d j
N. grites of Luzon). Here was a prob em j
for the Japanese to solve the same as '
that which we propose to tackle, but
of less magnitude,.
Some recei%t statements in the press I
that Japan was to protest against our I
retention of the Philippinps because she j
had views in that direction herself have !
brought out, in an interview, a denial j
from Mr. Hoshi, the Japanese minister j
resident in Washington. Japan is cast
ing no covetous eyes on the Philippines,
he says, because her experience in
Formcsa has been satisfying of any
such desire. Formosa has been only a
huge bill of expense. The revolt of the
domesticated Chinese and of the native
tribes has necessitated the mainte
nance there of a large army and the
preßer.ee of a portion of the navy. To
facilitate the movement of troops, roads
have had to be constructed, for the
Chinese po more than the Spaniards are
: oadn:tktrs. Forts have had to be *uilt
and supplied with armament, and, as
prompt communication is a modern
necessity, Japan has had to lay cables
connecting her with the island's prin
cipal ports. Por ajl this expenditure,
Mr. Hoffhi says, Japan gets nothing.
"The returns from the island have
gone to private merchants and owners
of land, and none of this return has
flowed into the government's treasury."
What Japan has experienced we will,
| if we conquer and keep the Philippines.
I Immediately there will be necessity for
a large increase of the army to hold the
various r.oits of the many hundred !
islands of the archipelago. The Asiatic j
squadron will have to be increased and .
maintained. There will be additions to j
the river and harbor bill for improve- j
ment of the thousands of harbors there.
There are no roads whaitever, and these
j must be opened to permit intercourse
I with the interior. Railways will have
to be built, subsidized in some way by
our government. We cannot depend
upon the cable lines now connecting I
Manila with this country, and we will
have to subsidize some company to lay |
a line touching at Hawaii and the Lad- i
rones. As the commercial use of this '
line will not sustain it the subsidy will
have to be a heavy one. "As a result,"
says the Japanese minister, "the gov
ernment is spending far more money
that it has received or ever will receive j
from Formosa." And the same will be j
true of cur possessions In Oceanica.
Ask the People About It.
The overwhelming vote by which the joint
resolution for the annexation of Hawaii
passed the house shows the popularity of
the measure with the people. The house is
the popular branch of congress, in close
touch with the people, and as most of the
members are candidates for re-election this
year they would be very careful not to pass
so important a measure If it were patent that
it did not meet with public approval. — Min
neapolis Tribune (Rep.).
Tommy-rot! The measure of a ques
tion's popularity with 'the people is the
verdict which they render when they |
have been given the opportunity to
pass upon it. The say-so of Republican |
newspapers does not ma4ce it so, much j
as their editors wish it did. The mem
bers of the house are not in close touch
with the people on the Hawaiian ques
tion. They were elected two years ago,
when lit was not in conspicuous evi
dence as an issue, and they did not be
gin to represent the people in congress
until a year after they had canvassed
the people on other and entirely differ
ent propositions. Let the Republicans
declare their intention this fall to annex
Hawaii, the Philippines and other re
mote parts of creation, with their re
sulting "colonial policy," and see what
the people will say to 'that naked prop
osition.
No colonial policy! No territorial ex
pansion! No entangling alliances for
the patriotic American people!
It Is Kismet.
Above the sordid motives, above the
jetty 'scheming, the play of politics, the
petty ambitions that have plunged the
country into war, one can divine the
larger purpose of the directing hand
that guides the destinies of peoples. In
different to individuals or the motives
| that impel them, to the solution of the
greater problem humanity is working
out on this planet. For whatever end
It was permitted that the civilization
typified in Spanish ideals should dom
inate for four centuries one-half of this
hemisphere, the time has come when
the end is attained and semi-barbar
ism, with its thin veneer of civilization
imposed upon barbarism, must give
way to a higher type of humanity. In
this we find the justification tor an
otherwise causeless war.
In part this end is to be accomplished
by means presently used. Spain's te
nacious grasp on the remaining frag
ments of her once vast continental pos
sessions is to be forced to relaxation
by the power that lies behind the
heavier battalions and the greater
navies. But when Spain's power ceas
es in Cuba and Porto Rico, Spanish i
ideals, but little modified, will remain
on half of the hemisphere to impede
the progress of humanity, the "in
creasing purpose" that Tennyson per
ceived running through the ages. Span
ish ideals of humanity and its rights,
of government, of religious intoleration,
are the heritage of Spanish dominion,
remaining to curse after Spain's sov
ereignty was overthrown. The end will
not be accomplished until*Anglo-Saxon
civilization submerges and replaces
the Latin on this hemisphere. Fate or
design, this is what is to be.
Already the processes are in opera
tion. There will be no war of conquest
such as is now being waged. There
need be none. For years the Anglo- .
Saxon has been moving into these
countries and getting a foothold. He
went as a trader and stays. He went
to construct railways and remains to
operate them. He builds street rail
ways and puts in lighting plants in j
the cities and invests his capital in j
plantations of sugar and coffee and j
rice. He has gone into Argentina and j
opened vast areas of wheat land and j
sheep ranges. As population becomes ■
more and more congested here, as op- j
•portunities become more and more re- j
stricted, the venturesome will se» 2 k !
their fortunes to the South, where the
indolent nativ« and the enervated j
Spaniard and his miseegenates have j
left unutilized the vast resources of j
lavish nature. They will go in increas- i
ing volume. Germany, Scandinavia
and Great Britain will contribute thoir
sons to South, American development,
as they have to that of North Amer
ica. In good time these "uitlanders"
will become the dominant political
force, and Ango-Saxon governments
will rise on the discarded and rejected j
barbarisms of Spain's heritage, and
real republics, such in spirit as well j
as in name, will displace the travesties j
now masking dictatorships "tempered ,'
by assassination." By such processes !
mankind has moved upward, and by
such will progress yet be made.
One condition of the NewJands Ha
waiian annexation resolution is that
this country is to assume the payment
of the Hawaiian debt, not to exceed
$4,000,000. There has been all along a
singular silence as to this debt. Who
contracted it? Did it exist, and in what
amount, before the sons of the mission
aries converted the islands to Christfan
ity and themselves? If since, for what
was it created? Who got the money?
And what kind cf an improvement was
the "republic," if in five years it has
accumulated a debt of $4,000,000? Who
holds these bonds? After annexation
will it appear that the missionaries"
sons have requited themselves for their
arduous labors in behalf of humanity,
Christianity and civilization by allot
ments of these Hawaiian bonds among
themselves? Will some one kindly turn
a searchlight on this matter for a <ew
moments?
Gradually the right term develops to
-characterize the new policy of the Re
publican administration. We have had
it called "expansion," "extension" and
other mild and indefinite terms, but it
is left to the president to give it its
proper designation. He la reported to '
have told Grosvenor to go out to the
Ohio state convention and prevent the
adoption of any resolution approving
of the "Imperial" policy. He Is said
not to have fully developed this new
policy In his own mind, and any dec
laration from the Republicans of his
state would be premature. But, what
ever the nebulosity of the presidential
mind, there Is none iri that of his par
tisans. The onfly difference is in their
conception of it. They are flred with
the glory of conquest and enlargement
of national boundaries; he is consid
ering what the new policy indicates of
governmental tendencies. He sees
clearly that it means a differentiation
of republican government, the drift to
wards imperialism, and he fitly names
the policy to conform with the fact
Is the "man on horseback" coming
down the road?
Another anecdote about Kipling which has
just been printed extensively 'las proved to
be nothing more than a fabrication. It u-:ed
to run that once upon a time Lockwood Kip
ling and his son, then a boy, were on a voy
age, and that the voyage proved too much
for the father. While he was sick in his
cabin an officer appeared and cried: "Your
aon, Mr. Kipling, has climbed out on the
foreyard, and If he let's go he'll be drowned;
we cannot save him." "Oh, is that all?" re
plied Mr. Kipling, turning his back on the
officer; "he won't let go." A correspondent
of the Cape Times has been unkind enough to
ask Mr. Kipling whether this story was true.
Mr. Kipling replied: "The only time that I
made a voyage with Rudyard was when he
was twelve years of age, and that only be
tween Dover and Calais, going to the Paris
exhibition. I'm never sick at Bea, and on
the steamer on which we crossed I do not
suppose there was a bowsprit, or whatever
they call It. I'm very sorry to spoil the little
story, but It never happened."
Prof. John Bassett Moore, recently ap
pointed assistant secretary of state, was a
clerk in the department during President
Cleveland's first term, and was promoted to j
third assistant secretary. He was retained in
office by Mr. Blame and resigned in 1892 to
accept the chair of international law in Co
lumbia college. In 1865 he was an applicant
for a civil-service position; having passed the
examination, he was assigned to a clerkship
at $1,200 a year. Within the year he was !
made third assistant secretary. While in tfce !
department he wrote a book entitlod "Ex
tradition and Interstate Rendition." which is
an authority. He is also an editor and able
contributor to the Political Science Quarterly.
It forms a striking conclusion to add that
Prof. Moore is only thirty-five years of Age.
For several years a growing interest has
been manifested in the value of the study of
animals and plants by the young, and in the
improvement of the instruction in these sub
jects in the high schools. Instead of the
time-worn method of the analysis of plants,
attention is being turned to life processes of
plants, the function of plant parts and the
Interpretation of obscure processes through
some of the microscopic plants. In th« sum
mer school at Cornell university, during 189S,
special courses are offered for the purpose of i
training teachers for presenting this now |
method in the high schools. In view also of I
the growing popular interest In nature study,
and In the study of mushrooms, courses are
offered in these subjects.
Here are a few very Juicy annual salaries:
J. M. Toncey, manager of the Vanderblt rail
roads, $50,000; E. W. Bok, editor Ladles'
Home Journal, $26,000; Frank Thompson,
president of the Pennsylvania railroad $50 - !
000; John A. McCall, president New York Lire i
Insurance company, $50.C0O; Conrad H
Mathieson, president Chicago sugar refinery,
$75,000; Dr. John Hall, the New York clergy,
man, $30,000.
IMPROVEMENT IN WEAPONS
Has Had the Effect of Decrraning
Losses in Battle.
To The St. Paul Globe:
In The Globe of yesterday I notice
on page eight a statement headed
"Death Rate in Battle," some figures \
which I think are not correct, and the
closing words of the article say: "As a
matter of fact things stand very much |
as they used to do." History, I believe, !
shows as a matter of fact that so far
as loss in battle is concerned things do
not stand as they used to do.
It appears to be a fact— paradoxical
thought it may seem— that each marked
improvement in destructive weapons
decreases the loss of life in battle. For
the purpose of Illustrating this we may
divide the time into four periods. The
first, when pikemen and musketeers
did the fighting, takes in the battles
of Leipsic, Lutzen, Norlingen, Rocroy
Marston Moor. Naseby and Seneffe or
that period from 1631 to 1674, and the
average percentage of casualties is
twenty-six.
The second period is from Fontenoy
1740. to Bautzen, in 1813, and includes
Marengo, Borodino, Leipsic (three
days). Bunker Hili and many ether bat
tles of that time, when the infantry
arms was the old "Brown B<ss" smooth
bore flint-lock with bayonet.
The average percentage of casualties
during this period was twenty and one
half. The third period is that time
when rifled barrels and percussion caps
were used, end takes in the battles from
Alma in 1854 to Chiekamauga in 1563.
and the percentage of loss during this
time was fifteen.
This period takes in the battles of
Magenta, Soferino, Shiloh, Chickahcm- j
my (seven days). Antietam. Fred- \
ericksburg, Chancellorsvire. Gftty. b rg !
and Murfreesboro. It does not take j
in the Wilderness, for the reason that j
it is impossible to distribute the num
ber engaged for each separate engage
ment.
The fourth rerid takes in that when
the breechloader first made its appear
ance, and was used on both sides,-ex
cept at Koniggartz. 1866, when the ,
Prussians only were armed with it, to j
Sedan in 1870, and includes besides the i
two battles already mentioned, such |
w til-known battles as W. erth, Spich- I
fren, Mars-Le-Tour ard Gravelotte. |
The percentage of loss during this time >
vvas 10 1-3.
The men in fighting the battles of the j
future ,wUi not stand shoulder to
shoulder, or "touch elbows" when go- j
ing into an ergaarement, &s in th^ past i
The intelligent officer will fi<rht his m<?n j
in several lines with a considerable in
terval letween eirh man. If he don't i
do that he should he shot.
"Stonewall" Jackson fought his men
in this manner very effectively at the
battle cf Chanc llirsvl'le.
The Indian*, who^tnow how to fight.
do so with a wide Interval, and tak^
advantage of every tree.
When the Seventh Wisconsin infan
try, in tbe winter of 1863 and 1&64,
vete-aniz-d, ihey vrer.t home for thlrty
dtys, and during that time they re
cruited about .one company of Indians.
In the first day's battle in the Wilder
ness, on May 5. 1864. at the first volley,
every Indian made for a tree and
fought from behind thar. The rest
fought "shouldfr to shoulder" and suf
fered for it. Ycurs r°sp ctfuliy.
— W. H. Ha-ri*s.
Caledonia, Minn,, June 18.
THE SINKING OP THE HERRIKiC.
(Written for The Globe.)
Cervera's fleet Rt midnight sneaked
Into Santiago bay.
When Sampson learned that he was in,
In, said he. he'll stay.
And now to hold the rascal in.
And prevent his getting back,
RiKht in the mouth of yonder Lay
We'll sink the Merrimack.
A deed so daring he well knew
Was required of men of steel,
And to his noble sailors
He quickly did appeal.
Quick as a flash a noble band
In conaert made reply.
We'll sink our ship in yonder gap,
And then, if need's be. dip!
— M. S. Farrell, 296 Slurgess street. City.
i
[^pjstlw to Sf/PauL
A very charming St. Paul woman, who
makes her summer home at White Eear,
routed the police force of that village after a
very brief encounter Friday. Mrs. B. ridel
a bike, of course, and when it became necea- '
sary for her to go to the grocery or the pcst
offlce or wherever it was that sho had to go,
she, of course, mounted her wheel. Now ai
times the streets in the village of Whit*
Bar are not the real thing for whe; ling and
the town authorities know the same, with
a view to having the streets press, d out flal
by bicyclists they have passed an ordlnanc
forbidding anyonn riding on the sidewalks.
Mrs. B. either did not know of thi--, or s' «
did not care; she took to the walk ai.d rode
down town. She left her wheel outsiie an*
went into a store and when she came out sha
found herself confronted by the ttgnttsry,
who Is the whole thing in police rir-les— the
man who is to the police departm* nt what
the lone mariner was to the Xancy brig.
He said to the lady:
"You are under arrest." She lookei at
him and made a dash for her wheel, which
he had captured. He retired b.fo.e the on- ,
slaught in disorder and she got the wheel.
"I am what," she demand', d.
"You are under arrest for riding on th«
walk."
"But I won't be under arrest," she said.
'But you are," he paid.
"I am pot anything of the kind. You mind
your own business."
"But, mum, it is my business and you
must go to the justice's office with me, or
promise that you will be there at 9 o'clock in
the morning."
"I won't do anything of the kind."
"But I tell you I arrest you."
"And I tell you I won't be arrested. Th»r<»
you are. Now what are you going to- *\>
about it?"
"Oh, come on now, come to the Justice's
office."
"I won't do It. I'll pay a fine If that's what
you want. How much is it?"
"I don't take the fine. You must go to
| the justice," said the unfortunate copper.
"Where is the Justice then?"
"He's aown on the bridge flshin", I guess.
Won't you promise to be en hand in the
morning?"
"No I won't."
"Then I'll have to arrest you."
"And I tell you I won't be arrested, and
I I'm going home." The copper scratched his
; head and looked as though he was going to
! make another sally on the bike. Mrs. B. got
I aboard of the wheel.
"You're a nasty, mean thing, and I'm going'"'
to tell my husband that you said I was ar
rested," she said, and she rode off and the
copper went down on the bridge and helped
the justice fish, and the crowd that had gath
ered gave him the laugh.
"Col. Westover be blowed," said "Doluh
| Schiffmann, "I had an experience the other
day thait puts him out of it."
"How was it?" I asked.
"Well." said 'Dolph, "Art White and I went
out fishing the first part of the week. We
didn't have much time, so we just drove out
to Bass lake. They were not biting to any
extent that day, and we just punted around
In a boat trying the different grounds. Art
was rowing and I was doing the fishing. We
turned around a bend in the shore and about
fifty feet or so from us I saw a bird sitting in
the water. I called Art's attention to it:
" 'Diver, 1 said he.
" 'Not on your life." said I, 'its a wild duck,'
We pulled up pretty close to the bird and It
was sure enough a mailard drake. It did not
try to fly and I told Art to row up and see
if we could get close to it. The duck swam
j away from us as fast as It could, and when
we got too close It dove and came up in an
other part of the lake. We followed it and
I picked up the landing net. Every time we
got too close the bird would dive, but we
kept chasing it until Art was covered with
perspiration and I expect that the duck was
Just about as warm a3 he was. At last we
got up very close and Mr. Duck dove again.
I could sea the ripple on the surface as It
was making off and got Art to pull hard. (
We got alongside of the bird and I tried for
it with the dip net. I missed the first time,
but the second trial I made I landed him ard
brought him Into the boat in the net. We
found that the b!rd had been wounded and
the end of one wing was gone entirely. The
poor beggar hp.d evidently been shot early in
the spring and will have to spend the rest
of his life in the lake, for we let him go
again. I think it is the first case on record
where a wild duck was captured in a d:p
net."
"When I wuz up In the Lake uv th,r"
Woods," said Col. Ike Westover, "I got out
uv ammunition an 1 putty nigh starved to
death. You know I've a remarkabh- stick of
patience. Well, suh, I give yo' ma word I'd
have shorely starved if it wusn't for pos
sessing this quality. I wuz out uv powder
for thirty-six days an' in that time I lived
on ducks. How? Why, suh, I U3ed to go
into a swamp an' toy down in the water,
cover mahse'f over with reods, lay there until
a duck swum up within rench an' grab h m.
I got as high rs forty-toree durks in one
day that way, an' since that time I never
care for a gun when I feel that I am duck
hungry."
The details of a real good thing in the way
of a Ssh story will arrive here Mondaj morn
iLg. Last nipht Billy Carling received by
express, a thirty-two pound mus.alonge.
Parked in wiih the fish wa3 a card bearinjg i
the legend:
Shot by Put., caught by Dud. and landed
by Joe ar.d Al, Hayward, Wto.. June 17."
"Put" is Ed l'unam, "Dud" is Dudley
Pinch, Joe and Al are the appellations of J'-e
Henry and Al Fischer. They'll 'bring in the
story tomorrow.
While the circus procession was p.;ss : .rg
the Metropolitan opera house tht> otter day
a horse attached to a buggy, in which a lady
was sitting, became frightened by the un
wonted sight of the elephants. The lady
scrambled out of the buggy and ran to the
horse's head. A colortd man was ■tltmHng
on the walk Quite handy and as the lady
grabbed the bridal of the horse with one
land she caught thp man and brother with
the other and shouted:
"Nigger, nigger, hold my horse."
The colroed man turned his big eyes on
her and said:
"White woman, yo' look out: yore runnin'
two chances of gttin' hurt here."
Goodhue county's dolegr.tlon were assigned
-stats at the rear of the convention. "Scorns
to me you've put GoocV'ju*' county :i mighty
lcr.g ways back," expostulated cue of th«t de c- .
gEtes to the son of Erin who w;-s officiating
as master of ceremonies. "l!ida<l. fon're
right," he retorted. "I noiish-d that Good
hue county was r.iightly lur behind in tt*
lasht election." And the protest wa; with
drawn.
The Philistine. .
OIR HKKOKS OX THE NBAS.
/
Out from our sheltered harbors.
In armor thickly mailed.
Equipped a^d manned for conflict.
Our batf.eshii.B have sailed.
Brave men are those that RUide them.
Brave men. with wnrriors' skill;
They dread not wave nor fo_-man.
Armed ship nor fortrcssed hill;
But search the wave-tossed waters
Tiil Scatiish warship runs.
And send their thundering challenge
From iron-thruted guns.
The shells' fierce shriek is music
Set to their battlecry;
E'en death can not deter them —
They-do not fear to die.
Their hearts are steel when chjrging
Against the hated foe.
But tender as a maiden's
O'er suffering Cuba's woe.
— Imogene Pope.
EiiKawed.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
"Do you the pie in four pieces or fiveV
asked the landlady, sweetly springing her star
catch question.
"Six," promptly answered the applicant for
a Job.
Another K«i>ture.
From the Cleveland Leader.
She; — Do you know that married men, as a
rule, live longtr than bachelors?
He — I don't believe that. It only seenu
longer to thuia.