St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-06
TOPICAL TALK,

crowned Ii, and there is vast deal of
speculation in the public mind, both as
to what it all means and as to how
much those who were On the ground
floor have made out of it. 1t is pretty
well settled opinion that Mr.. HILL has.
realized enough to pay for that princeiy
mansion which is going up on Summit
avenue. All that, however, is matter
of purely private concern, which the
public has no right to inquire into. and
popular curiosity on that point will have
to remain unsatiSfied. Still, it is a mat
ter of legitimate public inquiry to as
certain what influence the Canadian
Pacific people have welded in this
matter, and to what extent. if at all,
this new Northwestern railway con-
solidatiOn is to be made part of
the Canadian Pacific system which is to
be established on and through United
States territory. British capital is get
ting to play avery important part in this
country. 1t is already in control of
some of our most important manufactur-
Ing Interests, and it is altogether within
the range of probability that it should
be ambitious to control the railroad bust
ness. Everything that bears on the face
of it the assurance Of per cent divi-
dend. from brewery to railroad, has
attractions for British capital; therefore,
it is not a difficult matter for gilt-edge
railroad system TO be swallowed up in
British interests. There are some per-
sons who have the credit of being far
sighted who see in Mr.. Hills scheme
the beginning of a great railway
trust which is to ultimately con-
troll all the railway business of
the continent, and at the same time
overcome the embarraSSments to rail-
road interests which have been occa-
stoned by the operation of the interstate
commerce law. There are others who
confne their inquiries and speculatiOns
to that peculiar phase of railroad finan-
ciering SO common at this time, by which
concern that doesn't earn operating
expenses can be appreciated in value
by the simple process OF increasing its
indebtedness. If the same principle
could be applied TO every other branch
of industry, how wealth would accumu-
late. But whatever speculations may
be INDUCED in by the outside public,
there are two things assured. One is
that st. Paul is to be the headquarters
of one of the most powerful railroad
systems on the continent. And the
other Is that JAMES j. Hill. has come
to be recognized as one of the foremost
railroad men of the age, and will hence
forth take rank with GOULD, WILLARD,
VANDERBILT and HUNTINGTON.
Progress of The law of compen-
sation is at work.
Christianity in While the Buddhists
are making inroads on
Japan. the Christian religion
in this country, Chris
tianity is rapidly supplanting Buddhism
in Japan. Nor are the Christian con-
verts altogether from the illiterate
classes, as is the case in China and other
countries where Christian missions have
been established. Fully 80 per cent of
the Christian converts in Japan are
made up from the old military class, the
Samurai, the next grade below the
mobiles. and to which nearly all the pres
ent officials of the government belong.
Among the members of Congregational
church are Judge of the supreme court
of Japan, a professor in the imperial
university, three government secretaries,
members of two noble families: while in
Presbyterian church are three of the
most prominent leaders of the Liberal
party, one of them count in the new
peerage. The editor of the ablest
financial journal in Japan and the Off
GERS of nearly all the provincial legiS-
Iatures are Protestant Christians. 1t is
question whether in all its history
Christianity has ever gained i'll so short
time stronger hold upon the upper
classes than in Japan during the last
fifteen or twenty years. The only OBJ
stacle to the progress of the Christian
faith in Japan is the confusion created
in the Japanese mind by the varieties
of Christianity offered to them.
The Pan HENRY CLAY was
the first American
American statesman to advocate
more intimate CONNER
Congress, cial relations between
the United States and
the countries of South and Central
America. Sixty-fOur years ago, while
secretary of state, he advocated such
policy, and on his recommendation
President ADAMS appointed delegates
to a peace congress which resultedin
the agreement to general convention
of peace, unity, commerce and nayiga-
ton between the United States and the
federation of 1.-The Center of America"
The delegates to the present Pan-Amer-
lean congress number thirty-fve, but
upon all questions coming before the
body they are on an equal footing with
out reference tothe number OF delegates
from each country, or there will be
but one vote from each delegation. Mr..
BLAINE, who is elected president of the
congress, will not be entitled to a vote.
not even in case of tie. Whether they
withdraw or not from the body. it is GER
tain that some of the South American
delegations resented Mr.. BLAINE'S cleo
ton to the presidency of the congress,
for the OStenSible reason that he was
not a member of the body. The real
cause of the resentment is that the
South American representatives are not
pleased with BLAINE's OfficiOusness IN
pressing upon their attention the merits
of a certain steamship subsidy scheme
and the beauties of an American pro-
tective system. Mr.. BLAINE had a
handbook printed for the congress at
government expense. 1t is large vol
ume, and when the South American
delegates opened it with the expectation
of finding the complete statistics of the
trade of this country with South and
Central America, they discovered that
1t contained lot of puffs of American
steamship lines, arguments in favor of
subsidies and protective tariffs, and
other stuff of that sort.
A Southern Congressman HER
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