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SUNDAY, OCT. 13, 1901. iIf.SSKSOTA AT Till: pan-ajsekicax When the Minnesota legislature made its original appropriation of $20,000 for the state to expend at the Pan-American ex position at Buffalo, it was with the idea that a state building was not necessary, and that, for exhibits alone, $20,000 would be sufficient. — C -V;-; When the board of managers asked an Increase •to $50,000, the legislature re luctantly granted $10,000 more, making a total of $30,000, but still coupled with the statement that a building was not neces eary.. The first motion passed by the board of managers after the final appropriation . was a resolution deciding to erect a state building. That their judgment was bet ter than that of the legislature, the events of the past few days have de termined. The awards were made at the Pan- American a few days ago. They are of four classes, namely: gold, silver and bronze medals and honorable mention. The gold medal is, of course, the highest, and when the awards were made public it was found that Minnesota had won three gold medals. No other state has to exceed two and only five obtained that number of gold medals. One of the gold . medals was awarded to Minnesota for its educational exhibit, and it Is a notable fact that no other state received a medal for educational exhibits, or even an hon , orable mention. The Minnesota building was utilized to make the educational exhibit, though the liberal arts building was the one where the mass of the exhibits was collected. Almost the entire wall space of the Min nesota building is covered with the edu cational exhibit, and though it .is outside of the building designed for that purpose, the- judges readily awarded the state a gold medal and ignored every other state. As no such exhibit could have found space in the liberal arts building, this alone is a sufficient reward for the erec tion of the building, and shows that the numbers of the legislature who wished to make it Impossible to erect a Mlnne i- ..—..„. maa< a serious mistake. ■ " The other two gold medals were for the model of the new capitol in butter and our general agricultural exhibit. Minnesota received three gold medals, four silver and six bronze and one hon orable mention, a total of fourteen. New. York received but three medals, two gold ones for butter and agriculture and a silver one for a relief map. Michigan obtained but one medal, and that was gold for its agricultural display. Illii. nois obtained but vone' medal, and that tvas silver for its corn display. Missouri, the home of the next exposition, ob ■ tamed but six medals, two' gold and four silver. Wisconsin obtained one gold medal and two silver. Seventeen' states exhibited, four of which did not obtain any gold medal at all. Seven obtained one, five obtained two and Minnesota stands alone with three. The horticultural 'awards have not yet been made, but we understand that Minnesota has a fair prospect or obtaining another gold medal for its display of Fort Snelling in apples. This is a record of which the state can well be proud, and shows that the $30,000 appropriation has been used to excellent advantage. . m —: TREASON MADE EFFECTIVE. The present deadlock in the effort to elect a successor as county commissioner to the absent Mr. Whitehorne should be \ brought to an end," if there is any inten tion to have an election. The situation Js such apparently that the choice of the Republican minority . cannot be, and the choice of the Democratic majority is not likely to be, made effective. The course ■under all the circumstances seems to be to leave the place unfilled, « unless the Democratic majority can . agree among Itself ' on' some man who can be elected with the aid of Republican votes. According to the statement Imputed to Assemblyman Dix in these columns there are enough' Republican members who will vote for a Democratic . nominee other than Mr. Arend to secure an election. The Globe does not attach any importance . to this kind of talk, since the Republican Tbrethren have thought proper to name 63 their candidate a strict political partisan. Nor \ does it see any adequate reason why, if these very upright gentle men are willing to leave their party to elect a man, they should have such a dread of the election of Mr. Arend. The Globe would much rather see the present vacancy continue than that any ■ avowed preference of the two Democratic deserters In the -council or of either of them should be successful. It -"■ would much rather see, and it believes the rank and file of -the party in this community . •would - much - rather see, "an agreement made between the : loyal Democrats in the council and* the necessary number of straight 'Republican - members on a can didate,, even kif he were a Republican, than that the system of party political treachery represented by the conduct ot Hunt and Bantz should succeed. The Globe has always believed, and Its belief is rendered all the more settled by the progress of , events In connection with this county "commissionershlp, that these two men should have been left out side the party when they chose to go out; that they were traitors to the men whose votes elected them, as well as tb those whose influence secured them their re spective nominations and to the party under whose auspices they were Aected.*-- When they were invited to take part in the election of a president of the council and the concessions were made to - them that were made by their Democratic as sociates, the Globe thought 'and still thinks that not only was a mistake* made, but that an unprincipled political trans action was consummated, the true conse quences of which would be soon brought home to the Democrats who took part in it. "We have not been mistaken. These traitors ' stand today where they > stood when a city attorney was elected, and, later, when a president of the counal was elected, of being able to spit upon, those to whom they owe their political and official existence. Any further truck which the Demo era members of the ! council , will con sent to have with these men,, for. the se lection of a county commissioner "til" otherwise, will be regarded by the Demo- r cratic masses of the city as completely condoning their misconduct, and as giv ing full warrant for a repetition of thoir treason by any other political adventurer who may hereafter be chosen to public office in this community by Democratic votes. . - • . -^B- —; ' . L~r. the PHILIPPINE TARIFF. "By the authority of the president of the United States, and with the approval of the secretary of war first had, be it en acted by the United States Phllipplno commission," is the remarkable title of a remarkable document sent broadcast to the press and marked "Confidential until Oct. 7, 1901, a. m." The document is the act and schedule of the new cus toms tariff prepared for the Philippine archipelago. ..-, " -■■■'--■- ■■■■ The act is an amendment of Military Order No. 49, which was dated Oct. 23, 1599, and related to customs duties on im ports and exports of the.Philippine" isl ands. This new act Is a most remarkable document in many respects, and if it should by any chance be sustained by the courts, it will mark a most radical departure in federal legislation, not only in respect to the subjects covered but also the enacting power. The constitution-provides that "All leg islative powers herein granted, * shall be vested in a congress of ;• the : United States." That "All bills for raising reve nue shall originate in the house of repre sentatives," "No -tax or duty shall be laid on any articles exported from any state, and no preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce to the ports of one state over another." Further, : the constitution confers upon the president of the United States no leg islative powers whatsoever. He is in the contemplation of the constitution an ex ecutive officer only. Inasmuch as the powers of congress are special grants from the people, and are enumerated, It follows as a necessary corollary that these powers cannot be delegated. . This prohibition is sustained by an unbroken line of legal decisions. It is now settled law that no legislative body can delegate its powers to.an agent. •..,..«--; - Notwithstanding these constitutional - and legal prohibitions, each of which was reinforced by the recent opinions of the supreme court, we have before us an act which the executive, with the approval of the secretary of war . first had, pro poses to put in force In a large portion of. the territory of the United States. Even if the provisions -of this act were in strict conformity with the constitution and laws of the United States, : the fact that the attempt is made to put It In force through the executive department without the approval of I congress first had, would be sufficiently revolutionary to call for energetic and determined op position from all patriotic citizens. But when we consider the fact that this act proposes to set up in a part of the.United, States a tariff wall against the other parts of the United States, fn direct op position to a. distinct provision of the constitution, and when we add to this the further proposition to exact-export du ties, a proposition expressly prohibited by the same immortal instrument, our sur prise at this iconoclastic innovation , of our constitutional rights is lost in our ad miration for the superlative gall which prompts the proposed action. ."■'-. It will be said that such an act Is necessary; that circumstances demand that the plain provisions of the constitu tion be overruled; that a tariff ' barrier must be erected against the other parts of the United . States because the .Paris : treaty gives Spain the same, rights of trade enjoyed by» the United States in its own territory. This Is no argument. The constitution should not be made to suffer for the blunders of. the Paris peace commission. ' : . > The details of this - tariff schedule are of little interest to the general read- 1 er. The . whole schedule Is compli cated in the extreme, the metric system being used with the result, whether in tended or not, to; confuse the American public.' ; Not content with the import duty, the export of certain articles?which would interfere with pet interests on this side of the water Is made prohibitive by the imposition' of an export .duty. The enu merated articles; embrace hemp, indigo, rice, sugar, cocoanut and tobacco. These' unfortunate articles will have to pay to get out and pay to get In. The tobac co and. sugar trusts do not propose to have any competition from the Philippines if they know themselves. "■> . .. * The free list is important to a degree. The Filipinos can have r all the , mineral water they need in the process of benev olent assimilation. Fresh -. eggs, fresh fruit, fresh meat, fresh milk (sour don't go). Diamonds and hand paintings go in free. . That the degenerate Filipino may be educated in high art, \ lithographs and posters are not to be taxed, and that the THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1901. Islands may be fruitful and multiply, nat ural manures are on the free list. ; This, wonderful act Is to go Into effect Nov. 15, unless (and here comes in : a most formidable barrier), the supreme court in the meantime does not hand down opin ions in the remaining insular cases now pending, knocking out .the .whole. careful ly laid plan. It is admitted, that the De Lima case . does not cover the Philippine situation. What. the court will do with the Spooner, act which attempts to confer, upon the executive; department :of the government legislative powers is yet to be i seen. ■. From the tone of the ■■ dissenting opinions in the Downes case ' and \ the known character of the dissenting Judges., it is doubtful if Justice Brown can go on straddling the insular questions. Looking' at .this customs tariff act from a legal standpoint, it is almost amusing in its In. consistencies. .-,.Y ■ - -- SHUT IT UP. '■"--"■ . The resignation of the abstract clerk,, appointed to j fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his predecessor, ; again : directs public attention" to the county ab stract office. What should be; done with that institution? What good end" Is se cured by its maintenance?; How long will it continue to be a public scandal and a drain on the public resources? It is 'of ■ •no earthly value to anyone, . public or private.--^lt - represents the control :-.ot: public records which are fast j becoming valueless through misuse, records which it will cost the county something 'like $50,000 or $60,000 to reproduce when their t reproduction becomes imperative. The , history of this office is the his tory of shameless , political log-rolling. The taxpaying community has been milk ed through it in the payment of official salaries and perquisites, and through the endless litigation which has resulted in the effort to construe the rights and in terests of those who have been asso ciated with its administration in one way or another since Its establishment. : ■-:, \'. : There will no doubt be a renewal In ■the next legislature of the effort to fix up some arrangement whereby some lo cal Republican - politician shall be able to work the county treasury through the agency of this official ' excrescence. ■*. That " effort may succeed or fail according as the country members do •or do not close their eyes to the fraud on the commun ity which is involved In Its 1 main- ■" tenance. Of course the local legislative delegation, composed as it has been from the beginning in the majority of Repub lican politicians,- will readily give -their approval to any scheme which promises to make the office a harbor of financial .,rest and recreation. for one of the faith ful... ; - ', ■ . . ■'"■'. .- . \'.:: {JU .;\ y'r .-■ THere is one thing which can now be done to advantage to the public'"interest' in connection with the abstract office. That thing is to close it up and keep it closed. If the public could look with" any success to the board of county com missioners for such action .in any given direction as would be most promotive of its welfare, there would .be no need to urge this course on that body. But as it is, it is useless to do so. The office will in all. probability be kept i open and its records will conui j«.to be "abused as they have been for so many years. The county commissioners will put In the man of their choice, no doubt, and he will find the office just what it was found by its latest incumbent. :No man who seeks to run the office on a business basis ,can go in there, meet its expenses and pay himself a living wage, without calling on the county treasury; to help him out. This is so because it has been reduced to such a condition of inefficiency that no one -will resort to it when he can go to a private abstract office or a title insur ance concern. ; !VI " The Globe last winter frequently. and strenuously urged on the del egation to the legislature from this coun ty to put an end to this office, or to merge it in . the office of the register of deeds. Of Course our urgency was. of no avail. The office is still there, water-logged and worthless. If the county commissioners have-not the good sense to close" it up, ..let. them take care that they do not take any such course of action toward it as v may render it any burden whatever finan cially to the taxpayers of the county. : — i* THE FOREIGNER NOT ALL TO BLAME, In an article in one of the current mag azines a fact. of some political and so cial significance is pointed out, toward which it would be well if more general attention could be directed. It is brought out in an article entitled, "The Ills of Pennsylvania, by a Pennsylvanian," in, the following language:.. — - ■->. "As Webster said, - 'Massachusetts there she stands,' and Pennsylvania there she stands, too. Philadelphia is the most native-born and the -most evil large city in America. You can't dismiss Pennsylvania's problem with a shrug of the shoulders and an easily uttered 'Oh hordes of ignorant foreigners! You may go over, the whole list of the bosses and sub-bosses of the state and find hardly ever a. 'Mac,' or even an 'O',' or a 'berg '. or a 'stein, 1 or a 'ski.' It is Sons of the Revolution, descendants ;of the :i first in habitants, • that are responsible for Penn sylvania's condition. Now, why? Why is Massachusetts, with her. native-born in a numerical minority, the best • governed commonwealth: in the Union, while Penn sylvania, with her native-born in large • majority, wallows in corruption?" : -.•:---,- We hear a great about the wicked ness and baseness of the foreigner. I One would think, . from what a lot .is said by most of these patriotic native persons, that all our national ills,' and none of our ; national blessings, are due to the influx Into the United States of the unregener ate foreigner. All our political corruption is due to them, if these patriots and philosophers are correct. So, "too, all the political vagaries which float in our electoral atmosphere from time to time are Indulged wholly by; foreigners. It never occurs, of course, to them that the ' -state* of Kansas, *. which ." is toe : breeding spot of all sorts of political and economic ■ fantasy, is a distinctively^ native Amer ican commonwealth. And, so too, in the -di^uesion , of* the - horrible ; crime \ of ' the man Czolgosz, by this class of patriots to the manner - born, there never has been : heard of such names in American history ias Guiteau or : Booth. <\ '.';/-•:"r:'":-. ? ■ ' [..It is truly prty for the foreign theory that Quay does not have an "O" or a i "Mac' to hie ; name; I that Bos» Elatt did -not 5 open his ey e . a on, the banks: of the: Rhine, that ScTiuyiel Colfax, Oakes Ames, Bill . Tweed an.i (he , others among the most, memorable of the thieves ; whom American public life has . begotten did not r - come ( over m one of •' the original emigrant ships. • If a poor devil O f an ignorant foreign 'laborer . shows % his ' appreciation of the politician " who around election times throws a* few dollars or lots of beerl in 1 his way by voting the way the politician /wants him to vote, such as he are to be 'regarded,-. of course,' as : responsible for the most serious dangers that threaten . American political. institutions, ; and - all sorts: of restrictions should .be placed on J their admission at the New York j barge., office. It may be safely called "business" • ■ when an. American business man, 'active- • ly concerned in the profitable conduct ot the affairs of a large corporation, goes into a legislature' or a city council and puts up money to bribe, and corrupt its : members in the advancement of his busi- ' ness enterprises; but the r"ward" heeler" j -who works like, a trojan for ; his party and its candidates on and before election day is on the same, highvtaative^iauthor-; ity a : ruffian-of the most deplorable kind. ; •This represents certain- of the ways in t which we deceive ourselves on the great' problems of economic and social sci ence which' are being solved every day • among us. It ;is not the morals of the foreigner as such that we need fear in the pollution 'of the. sources of . civil gov ernment. ;We must look higher. % Our '■ : vis ion must take a far broader horizon In its sweep if we are to locate even . the chief j underlying causes of public corruption and wrong-doing. ; Water does not rise higher than . its level unless , there is ~ a force . behind. it which causes it to-rise. It would always be. well for' even the native American patriot who has so much to : say about ' the foreigner, If he would look after, the beam in his own eye be fore concerning himself ". too sadly over the mote in the eye of his foreign brother. m - " HETTY GREEN'S ADVICE. .-Hetty/Green. is a remarkable woman. She is remarkable not because she has a husband with whom she is not on the best terms, , but because she ; has . money 7 and ideas, principally money.' Her ideas are regarded as more remarkable on ac count of the money. This is not peculiar to Hetty Green, but applies to all men and all .women who have money,. obtained"l either -by-purchase or by inheritance. Hetty has just given birth to ;an idea which .is ;receiving; more than ' ordinary attention, because, : while -it is in ' direct line with" the theory of • evolution ; and the admitted • principles of heredity, >it is so • impracticable 1 that it appears startling. Hetty is not in the habit of giving birth. or voice to impracticable 'ideas:",' 7 She is nothing if not practical. Therefore : the unusual interest .in the- idea: •■ ; ; .<- ' - . The idea is that young men should be gin where their fathers left off, or where" their mothers left off. The labors of th e great railroad kings should be taken up by their sons right where they ■ left it. The sons of posts; novelists, painters and editors should step into the shoes of their defunct paters and without a .break, but with the accumulated inertia of the accu mulated experience of .. their immediate ancestors, continue to write, poetry and novels, paint ; pictures; and discuss w poli cies, not only as well as their fathers, but better. A young ; Dickens and a young Hawthorne ought to do .better than an old Dickens and an old Hawthorne. " A young Kipling should outkipling his father, and- a young. Vanderbilt should go: his father- one better and "let the "public be double 'damned. 1 " This theory of the energetic Hetty is all right, but it doesn't work in actual experience. As the sons of . preachers are supposed to be imbued with : the : spirit jof • evil in proportion to the piety, of their sires; so the sons of great men, in both politics and finance, man age to reverse the reputation of their be getters and -average up , the , mental and ] financial factor of the race. ' ] .':'" l" This is, ' perhaps, a -wise provision of Providence, \ designed jto keep the human' family from unequal development, while the general center of gravity .is constant ly advancing. .3. ■ ."* ..-' '. V:- -: •.. ;.'i " The strongest force making for evolu tion -is- not heredity but work". The poor boy with!. a reasonably clear • head and a healthy body, having before him the example of successful men and the necessity for constant labor of both .head. and - hand, forces himself - ; by his ;own dynamic inertia past the son of the rich ir.au who inherits his father's wealth but not his fathers original circumstances with their pressing incentive ,to labor. .-: The pretty girl graduate in her w.hU« and pink tells us every spring that "there is no royal road to learning." We can ,not imagine where she gets this- peren nial aphorism, but she comes up smiling with it every June as regularly as bloom the roses. " The principle is paralyzingly true. . So is the twin expression rspouted T by the boy graduate "there is no royal road to success." ;■:■ We realize that these expressions are meaningless to \ the sweet .; girl and the bold boy, but \to I men arid: women 5' of ;mature •■ age and -a '; little experience, the meaning tis painfully plain. Hetty ought to know this, but possibly amfd ; the cares of her financial J success she.has forgotten ; it. s'v.'' . /:';'-.\ii ■■-'.': v.We realize -the- fact that exceptions ex ist. 7 The Gould boys took :up the work of their - father and : have = disappointed their- enemies.! Bui as if to keep this example from being too noted, "Anna; Gould, the wife.of Boni de Castellane, has been doing her best to dissipate the Gould gold. ■"!' ::;■. '^^r,-';'.^-."";;.,'''^"' -;": ; The families of the Vanderbilts and : the Astors.have niariaged to hold/their. own, but they : are exceptions, not the : rule. WheTe a * rich man's son ~ has -. made a markka success It has~been'- owing to the : fact that "pater" made him work made him begin at the bottom of the i ladder and ; work v up. :; ■>; True, * the - "old man's money" helped him >in a way, but ; it was the"- work, the rough and tum ble,, experienccthat|»ade it possible for him -to stand up, against the buffets of Va§ f crowd, 1 when the prop was removed. -. Noy while • Hetty's : theory j> may "work sometimes, it ran never become uni versal. Nature i*,; against it. To be- come an athlete, the muscles must be trained. The Bulgarians, although they are Christians, are advanced no farther than the Stone age. And so Lemly and"*Rayner have got down to business. When attorneys pro _oeed to personal abuse it is evident that .the inquiry has passed the inquiry stage. The British are cussing Gen. Bullor now because he advised the surrender of Ladysmith. That was the only sensible advice Bullet ever gave in his whole African experience. . Mephlstopheles Crowninshield says that the navy needs more officers. It ■wjas. lucky that there were not more officers during the Spanish war, or the Schley in ciulry would have lasted* until • spring. The railroad officials know the varus of passes. The sort of self-denial which would refuse a pass for the sake of pay ing fare might have been popular when martyrs flourished, but it don't go now. The controversy between Chaffee* ahd Taft in the Philippines may result in an other Schley inquiry. The determination of Judge Taft to uphold the courts will meet with hearty approval over here. We have had too much of military arrogance in that quarter already. The attorney general has reported -to the president that under the law Ijlr. Mackay does not need executive permis sion to lay a Pacific cable. He can lay it in midocean if he so desires without any one's permission, and under the law of 1866 he can bitch one end or both to any piece of American territory he sees fit. Tlie question whether Guam and the Philippines are American territory may embarrass him, that is all. Capt. Lemly has been hodlng the worst enemies of Schley for the last. He evidently wants to create a climax. Is this consonant with the idea that this is a disinterested inquiry into the conduct of Admiral Schley by the navy depart ment? Every step so far resembles the 'prosecution of an alleged criminal. Even worse, for an accused criminal is pre sumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty. But one of the Sampson papers recently stated that Schley had not dis proved the charges made against him. \ The Monroe doctrine Is strangely, mis-: understood in Europe, but it: should De understood in the United States. It does not assume ■ the least authority over the I domestic government or foreign relations of i American republics. It does note=v^h: promise them protection against. Euro pean attack for a purpose we recognize J;as just, like the collection of indemnity for outrage. It only guarantees ! them against further extension of permanent European sovereignty over American ter : ritory.—Minneapolis Tribune. v ■■ "'"■■• Yes, it is passing strange that the Mon roe doctrine is misunderstood in Europe,u I but rit. is less . understood in the United} States. . The' doctrine was based upon our declaration that we would not inter-; fere in the policies and the politics of the old world. ; When we broke that promise negotiating the treaty" of Paris, ;we abandoned what was once the Monroe doctrine. There is no excuse for such a doctrine now. And any attempt \to en force it I would be met with armed oppo- I sition from Europe, and justly. ;!l' ;"."r -"■—-— -^»> . ——' DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS OF - :;-c:.;-.; ; THE ENEMY.;;^:.^ ■ ■ . i -.-.■■.. ~ If To the Editor of the Globe: "•', -:':■■' '. Your correspondent offers, in, making: . this communication, as . his ; excuse, the deep and intense interest manifested •by the colored people of j St. Paul in the i case of Harry Summers, now under ar rest in 'this city charged with being a •■• fugitive from justice by the authorities . of the state of Tennessee, as well as the ; unjust and unwarranted . aspersion upon our sense of moral discrimination which is cast by the editorial of the St. Paul > Pioneer Press in its "issue of Saturday, - Opt. 12, , 1901, entitled "An Unpleasant .Duty." >-.. ;: " " '-.-. .; r In said editorial it is made to appear . to the good people of this state that the colored - people ■•• have made a great ado and bustle over a j condition, of affairs in Tennessee that is purely imaginary, and that we ought to be ashamed of our selves to have exhibited our sympathy for the alleged murderer. •? .-- -. ■■ We are much surprised and pained; to know that such a position is t taken by the St. Paul Pioneer Press, when th* known facts and the past bloody record ._ of the' state of Tennessee'■" fully justify j our people in their assumption that Sum mers will be given short '■, shrift if ho ever reaches that state, it Is an assump tion made by men in all phases and cir cumstances of life, that a state of affairs once shown to ■ exist, still obtains, - unless " the contrary appears. In the first place, many of us who fear for Summers, ; are former citizens of j: Tennessee, and •"■ our ■ .experience alone of th summary meth ods of dealing in that unhappy state wltn negroes accused of crime, especially, in remote ..localities like Bolivar, Harde man county. lead us -to believe, with a conviction amounting to a moral cer-' tainty, that this man will be i illegally punished. Some of us have seen with our : own eyes negro men.ana women mobbed and brutally beaten: in that state, killed and otherwise ill-treated solely because • In some way or other they had managed to come in opposition to some white ; per son, '••; and the authorities of j the -' law. stand idly by, aye, even partici pate ;in . the evil deeds. We don't '; say : these things ! because we " wish to ca ; lumniate - our native state, but " because"* these things are true. *. None iof us can '■ believe that | Summers, who is accused;' of splitting a white man's head open with, an ax, will be allowed a chance to es cape by way of the courts "of law. Oh, no. v The spirit of the old law, that a ne gro who ;_ struck a .white man should be J punished with death, still survives, ■•<and ■ animates the descendants of its authors.- The lynching of negroes is not common in Tennessee, says yo.ur apologist for the governor's decision. My God! What : con stitutes his idea of common? Eight lynchings | this . year, one per month, ; and one of them a woman (for theft)! -One hundred and sixty-nine in the past six teen years! I refer you to the statistics kept by the Chicago Tribune, and pub lished in its issue dated - Sept. 1, 1901. S I have only to turn to the pages of the Pioneer Press of the last two weeks to cite cases of brutal : and unprovoked . mob . violence upon unarmed and defenseless blacks, and nothing done about it. Yet Tennessee •■ is -an honorable f state, and - a model in this respect for all the old slave-holding states.,. . ; 4 ..; > In the case of Summers it Is said I that the officers of t the court and responsible authorities have joined in the assurance that ■ Summers will not be lynched," • but will have a fair and impartial trials What do tou - expect? ; Will they confess their inability .or their unwillingness to i give this man, for whom they are so anxious, a fair and impartial trial? But assur ance : • Yes, c assurance *; and nerve, but no insurance; no pledges »-do they, offer, no," not even their honor. Nothing but a •; hurried petition, gotten up in - a harum scarum sort of a way. ; And why do they : send ;a > petition -to our governor? 3 Why do they not assume that Van Sant would do the right thing? :: How . have ,they shown that they have taken or will take I any - precautions against the lynching of '■■ Summers?J None; but they will excuse themselves ;on the ground o|,pyerwhelm-" ing force, as is usual."' - -"';I -■••"■'/ ..-•* tJ^g ■ It is 5 said that • there ; have been ; no, mobs. in Hardeman county. Sheriff Sam-' ■ mers - says different.: -He .alleges '• that some \ time ago ►he was compelled to lay ; out •in ; the "swamps. of: Hardemaw county iwith two negro prisoners, 'in*. hiding from the : mob, and that one *of ■ the -- negroes died ■■ from- the '• exposure—and; this t before ■ our ■ governor. As -to the ; disposition, to : lynch the murderer; of William Lewark, : how I can •- it '. be • said : that ' there".* was :-: no manifestation of the sort when men were at ; that ? very i time scouring the -country "In r search of the ' suspect. , "He was;: not ' lynched' because :he was not \ caught. ■ In so ? far as -. time 'Is concerned, excitement, etc., It is "well known that the appetite Is * only whetted •■.. by ;; its ■? hunger, ; and that '■ some "of ? the most • barbaric of * lynch ings have taken ■ place long after the commis sion of i the; alleged crimes.. It is ■ the chronic lynching habit that tells; ex citement •'- is too often the end, not the S means. The ' revolting : circumstances ', ad - mittedly obtain only ■in about 5 per cent of the crimes for which men are lynched in the South. _ , :,t--<- • ... ■ .. Then,", as to !this | remarkable statement: "If found guilty he will not even he hung; ; for, under the ~ laws 'of that - state his punishment': will - only •: be .. twenty-one ' years Imprisonment!^ o most liberal Ten nessee! Most advanced of all the states! To have abolished the death; penalty for ■murder, in the first degree and substitut ed-; only twenty-one years imprisonment! Only another, reason.if true, why this m^n r u will ■be -" lynched, - for, according to their own testimony, it is the law's delays and the '■ inadequacy of its punishments that :is -constantly'put forward in extenuation of lynchings. Is Summers so great a fa vorite with the people of Tennessee that he will- be permitted to escape? ~, The very respectable^ Pioneer Press looks' down from its lofty position of im • , maculate j purity and observes, that the •circumstance .of - the ~ killing having oc curred in a house of ill-fame should mod erate the sympathy "of respectable color ed- people for the 'alleged murderer. Does -the Press assume that we are \of i such rrental density"and so moraliv. p*Pvertt*d ■ that we can not distinguish crime in color? That: som6-T>« not of Air if an descent confound color with crime is well known, but we deny the imputation. Why does ; not the venerable Pioneer Press >n its animadversions take into account the : looseness of the moral code as practiced in the South with regard to white men and negro women? It is universally held :excusable for young men to sow their wild oats among, negroes. And it nowhere , appears from ; the case that this was a .house of ill-fame, jas we understand the term. Simpfy^that this Lewark intruded himself by force and arms upon a colored man and woman, unmarried, seems to be the size of it. White people' of the South as a general: thing, regard all negroes as socially equal, so that your point falls. Personally, I know of cases where black husbands have ,: lost their lives insisting that white ; men keep away from their homes and the refusal of the law to in -1 terfere, and • there are few of us living here in St. Paul from the South who can not testify to like circumstances. sg Negroes ; have. no ■ rights which white men are bound to respect seems to be the trend of decisions North and South. For the ::colored people of St. Paul it Is safe to say that none of them have a personal interest in thl3 man Summers, and that in common with the other citi zens of this country we wish justice done. We manifest no desire to save an of fender from the just deserts of his crime-, but We do not believe that our governor is justified in sending Summers back, and "we believe ' ; that . the Pioneer Press ' ha* done us a great wrong by the publication of the editorial referred to, and paved ■i the way , for a gross misconstruction of our motives and desires in this matter in the minds of the people of the state of Minnesota and of the great Northwest. . —Gustave B. Aldrich. - ■ — : —^ :—: . .. - _■ MRS. J ROOSEVELT'S OFFICIAL LIFE. Collier's Weekly. -While the things that Mrs. Roosevelt must do are few in number and simple, the things she must not do are many', and sometimes real deprivations. But as all etiquette is really common sense ap . plied :to small things, these restrictions in effect "make her position far easier in the end. % She can attend few private en tertainments—so few that it; practically shuts her out of general society. Mrs. Harrison, during her stay in the White - house, went to not more than half a dozen ' private parties. Mrs. Cleveland i scarcely exceeded that number. Mrs. Mc- Klnley never went to any. The official dinners ■ given. by the cabinet officers to the president and his wife are necessarily dull, being made up- of the same small and intimate circle, meeting on that oc .. casion in the most ceremonious manner. - Mrs..Roosevelt is prohibited by custom, as the president is, from entering the house of any ambassador or envoy what-' ever, y such* premises being technically foreign ground. If she goes to the the ater, she must sit in a lower box. She may go to one ball in the year—the an nual charity when, if disposed, she may walk through two or three quad rilles. But if she should venture to dance a round dance it would mean a cata-" clysm. r So would it be if she were to appear in a carriage sitting anywhere else than, in the left-hand corner of the back | seat if the president is with her, or the right-hand corner if he is not with her. • - ■ . • — m NATIVE JAPANESE COPPER MIXES. Engineering. Magazine.' The total number of persons employed In various services 1 at the Ashio mines : and" furnaces is about 10,000, and these with their families make up a small city of 17,000. — Of these 75 per cent have been born on the spot, as were their fathers and grandfathers, and some have never seen beyond the red hills which close in the village and mines. They are cared for by the.proprietor, fed, and 33nt to school until twelve years of age. j.'he village has a well-equipped hospital at which-; the operatives and their families are tended without charge.' Only men are employed below ground to dig the ore. ' working in shifts of eight hours each! while those employed, at lighter labor work ; shifts of twelve hours. Wo?non are employed at the light- tasks, such as sorting and- washing ore by hand, most of them being the wives of the miners. The average pay per day for those en gaged in ; manual labor is 13 cents in 3il ver money and a stated quantity of rice and' fuel, while the miners are paid by the quantity of ore extracted. . The fur nace and shaft men receive from 11 to 30 cents, per day, and the women are paid 7 cents. . . ..., ;;.- .—; : — — : — THE LAUGH WAS ON HIM. New York Times. vEx-Attorney General Miller recently told this story, which is thoroughly en joyed by the narrator: "When President Harrison Invited me to become a member of his cabinet," he said, "I determined to visit my boyhood home in Indiana before going to Wash ington. I had not been .in the town for twenty years. At the railroad station I was met by the village hackman. who "Knew me when I was a boy. He greeted me as if I had left the town only the day before. On the way to the .hotel in his ramshackle deep-sea goin' hack " I said: ' "■'. " 'Well, William, what has happened since I have been here?' ■ " 'Nothin',' he replied.". . ; " 'William,' I continued, 'I've been cho sen . a member of the • president's! cabinet. What do the neighbors say to that?' • •■.." Nothing'/ he ■-: answered, 'they just laugh.' "..- ■■".■■■ '_ ■ - . ..■.-■ . ■ ■ - ■ ■ : ' *'*¥■■■• Mum AffllLw lbmtM v)JH lißdjL 1- The Pursuit of Wealth. AFTERNOON NEWS CONDENSED. Copenhagen-The - landsthing passed a bill. authorizing, a : new state loan. ' Bombay—Lady *Curzon of Kedlestnn — wife of the viceroy of Iffdia, arrived ft from Europe. ° New York-The total of the first days registration of voters in this cftv wJ 231,058. In 1900 ;It was 231,818.. , ■ Christiania—The -premier, J c Stop-, opened , the • storthing.;. The kinr -m* sage contained ! nothing of . interest* ARu meT Pope"received^lh 1 audience- Archbishop Chapelle, who was apoSe delegate to the West: Indies, • and more recently apostolic delegates to Uio Phii ippines. ' •rllJl .-•_ Lima.' Peru—Monsignor Garcia San? •* domestic prelate to the pope andl-n£tn2 of Santo Torino college s dea,l w was -a highly .distinguished member of the Peruvian priesthood. --.■=; . .■? " or New' York-Henry Piorson Dittmar<* a. s.'a zrxg Is a 1821, engaging in business here. Oantcn— The viceroy of Canton has r* mini^rT in n Tma, tiOn from the Chinese minister in London to the effect that am™ ?m nllS es of dynamite, arms and probably for the use of the. reformers. GSsFu^ric^irof^wed^^ i th?pJS Am -° r BUffal°- After dv°sl«nJ 1 % P# o ;tom^\% eX! ltSer te heh?^{i ' I SPS S£BS to the president from allowed' e%,f^ women will be I was decided today by a vote of the con ! ST ering,the Question was'paS STSSSWt? 1? which was passed M -Lo?i?« oV^i lother torDedo boat destroy £««. Ultur£ has bu(;kled in .wavy to Portland. She had to return to Ports to Portland. She had to return to Ports mouth ♦ where it was found several of her plates were ' broken. * tt , Detroit— C. Bennett aged twen 'Frfdav n?A,t Proba ibl- totally: stabbed Friday night, and is now in St Marv'a Frank**! k£ SM&ht ,hOpe of recovery 3 x<ranK j..Klein is under arrest chare.-d ■SL thu the cutting. The stabbing wat thi result of a quarrel about a woman in°P« a anti£° ple~The Ottoman students £%I %Wl^ are generally secret aunts of-the Turkish government have tele graphed the, sultan, demanding the im mediate payment of their allowances Otherwise they tHreaten to launch an agitation which will endanger the throne. Mishawaka, Ind.—The ten-year-old son of John Hellis; living s*outh of Misha waka. accidentally backed a team of horses into an apiary, upsetting the hives. The bees attacked the boy and horses. The : boy lost the sight of both eyes as-the result of stings and may die Both horses were- stung to death. Chicago— ultimatum by the Chicago Telephone company to the striking line men was given out, stipulating that th« men must return to work immediately or new men would be hired in their place. The company promised to consider their grievances individually. The strikers it is said, will not compromise. ' Vancouver, B. C—The Dominion gov ernment has made a change in the cable rates to the Yukon, which heretofore have been $4 for a minimum of ten words. The future rate is to be 40 .'cents per word. The press rate, heretofore $3 for 100 words, has been made SI per 100 words. • , Vancouver, B. Hon. Frances J. Las celles, brother of the Karl of Harewood has been acquitted of the charge of man slaughter, but was committed to the provincial asylum. He killed his Chines© cook at Golden, B. C. while insane. His : friends will endeavor to take him to England. _: London— Hartzell, missionary bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church i in Africa, left England this week | for East- Africa. He will organize a new African Methodist conference at Umtalif, Rhodesia, Nov. 8, and will then com- - mence an extended tour through his dio cese. The bishop has recovered from malarial fever, with which he was laid up for months in England. London—The United States ambassador, Joseph H. Choate, and his family sailed for New York from Southampton on board the American line steamer Phila delphia. The members of the United States embassy and many personal friends bid Mr. and Mrs. Choate fare well at Waterloo railroad station here previous to their departure for South ampton. Silver Creek, Neb.—As a result of a quarrel over his ability to shoot straight Thomas Baudur, Andrew Howiski and Gustave Gonzior were wounded seriously by JakeStruman at Duncan, Neb. He deliberately shot the boys to demonstrate his ability with the weapon. Struman is fourteen years of age. The other boys are about the same age. Baudur is shot in the head, and is not expected to live The others were shot in the leg and shoulder. Mattoon, 111.—An unknown man, sup- . posed to be James Rourke, after escap ing from the detention hospital, where he had been sent several days In a frenzy of delirium tremens, entered the home of John Herman as the family were seated at the table. Flourishing a butcher knife he drove v away all the family but Mr. Herman," who stepped into an adjoining room for a revolver and shot Rourke in the breast, killing him instantly. Webster City, lowa—B. G. Mundell was arrested at Williams, fifteen miles cast •of here, as an accomplice of the man ar rested in Chicago a few days ago .with $1,500 worth of postage stamps on his person. . The clew which led to the ar rest was the discovery of letters found on the person of the Chicago man, writ ten by Mundell, requesting his friend to write to him at Williams. lowa. Govern ment officers, had been shadowing- the Williams postomce for several days. New York—Gen. Wood's trip is proving of great interest to the movement for reciprocity, says the Remedios, Cuba, correspondent of the Tribune. At Santa Clara, Cardenas. Sagua and Remedied Spaniards and Cubans will appeal for a reduction of the duty on sugar and to bacco. They say their country will be ruined unless the United States grants this appeal. Politics, on the -eve of an election for president, is even over shadowed by this question; and the good feeling for America is noticeable. New. York—According to the 'Herald. William W. Braver, president of the Wllli?m W. Braver Steamship company, announces that his company will inau gurate a freight service from this port to Hamburg in January ' next. He says that within : four months the Braver s'taamship company ' will give out con tracts for the building of six first-class passenger and freight steamships,. to bo ready for the season of 1903. These new boats will be from 10,000 to 12,000 tons in size, with accommodations for 150 flrst class and 1,000 steerage passengers. „ Dcs Moines, lowa— state supreme court decided that a city has no statu- . tory authority to prescribe a fine for the violation 1-" of that section of" the mulct law prohibiting open saloons on elect! days, holidays or Sundays in lowa. Th« mulct law provides that in case of such violation the saloonkeeper loses bis rights under the mulct law and becomes subject to the: prohibitory law and may be in dicted and his saloon closed. Cities may not reduce this drastic penalty to a nom inal line as in the case decided. Brussels—The decision "of the Congo Free; State (to construct 1,000 -kilometers of railway in - the . upper Congo region marks' an important stage in ' the de velopment of .the colony. The railway, will : bring the thickly populated lands of Lakes Albert ' and Tanganyika into • direct . communication with the Congo river, through a country exceptionally, rich, - and . capable of development. The new line, unlike the lower Congo railway, will remain the .'; permanent property '■■ of the Congo Free State. Boston, Mass.— Bradstreet Green ough, professor of Latin at Harvard uni versity, ~: is: dead at his home in - Cam bridge as the result of i' paralysis. " He ~ had been ill for some time, and had been unable to conduct his regular courses for the last two - years. He was sixty-five years of age. vHe became professor of Latin in 1883,' and always has been prom . inent in < the movement for collegiate • co education. >:->;->j N r ''--* " ** New York— National. Association of - Reform. in : Bankruptcy has started its investigation to : ~ learn, the sentiment of the business community throughout the country regarding amendments to the bankruptcy? law; ; investigation has been undertaken at the instigation of the l. chairman -• of the judiciary . commit^ tee of . the fifty-sixth ■ congress, and is conducted by. the-National Association of -Reform executive 1 committee. After learn- ' ing the views of business ■■ interests, the executive committee will < report the re- - ■••' sult of : its ; investigation ■to the - judiciarjr.-. : committee. -i: .':■-.' v, ..