St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-09
REVIEW OF THE REVIEWS.

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unusually meaty Issue. Ii contains
more than the average number of that
kind of articles the larger number of
thoughtful readers find pleasure and
gain in reading. The range covers
finance, education, economics, and so
cial topics. Though the crisis of the
silver fever seems to have passed, thOre
is yet sufficient danger OF relapse to
make the articles on that subject by
Congressman Harter and Senator Villas
pertinent, as they have made them in
teresting. In the same line is the article
by Editor Hemphill, of the Charleston
News and Courier, on 1.-The Loss of
Southern Statesmarship," i'll which he
lanents the changed character of the
men the South now chiefly sends to
congress as compared with the
statesmen OF former days. They are
lacking in that courage with which
their predecessors WithStoOd popu-
lar clamOr for measures which their judg-
ment decided to be wrong and Injurious
and bend too readily to these erratic
currents of the pOpulace, intelligent
enough to know that they are hurt by
present conditions but too ignorant to
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that those they propose are worse than
the disease. Lamar, in the senate, re-
fusing the mandate of the legislature OF
his state to vote for the imitation bill,
typified the Southern statesman whose
departure Mr.. Hemphill laments. 'ln
the new South men seek office for the
money there is in it rather than for the
service they can render their country,
and men who hold Office net infre-
quently administer the duties of their
station as "A private snap rather than
as a public trust"
''The true purpose of the higher edu-
cation" says President Dwight, OF
Yale, lis found in the fact that it tends,
as by the necessity of nature. to the de-
velopment of the power of thought in
the educated man himself. The thoughts
which he receives stir the thought forces
of the soul, and the man becomes, III
the true sense of the words, thought
Tul man. He may not be philosopher,
or poet, or a statesman. or scholar;
but as educated. and because he is edu-
Gated, he is thoughtful-rich i'll his re-
sources for himself and for Others" He
makes answer to those practical people
who think all efforts directed to pur-
poses not connected with the material
affairs of life is wasted, and who would
have the education of the youth
aligned with the business pursuits
in which he will gain his liyeli- |
hood, that education first of all is for
the sphere within the man and not for !
the sphere which is without him. The !
work for the outward, which is tc ac- |
complsh its results for the well-being |
and up-building of the world. is to be |
the outcome of the energies within. |
The education which is thus set before |
us is one that is aIl-sided, not one-sided. |
1t opens the mind to the good, the true |
and the beautiful everywhere" This |
higher education should be given to the |
daughters as we'll; 1.-THE womanly mind |
is just as important. just as beautiful, |
just as much a divine creation with |
wde-reaching possibilities as is the |
manly mind" x at is too late in the |
worlds history to think that woman's |
mind is not of as much consequence as |
a mans mind. or that whatever may be |
her peculiar sphere, she is not to be |
richly, broadly. and, if we may use the |
word, thoughtfully educated as we'll as |
he"
1t is a matter of some significance |
when the solicitor of so complete a de- |
velopment of the modern tendency |
toward industrial combination as is the |
Standard Oil trust. feels that the condi- |
ton of public opinion makes it adysa- |
bic that he contribute to a leading re- |
view a defense OF that and trusts in |
general. 1t argues an encouraging |
growth of popular opposition 10 them. |
From the position taken but four years |
ago by the darling OF the Republican |
party, once its presidential candidate |
and now surrendered with reluctance, |
that "theSe trusts are largely private |
affairs with which neither the president |
taken by Mr.. Dodd in Ten Years of |
the Standard Oil Trust" in which he /
virtually admits that the public have |
sufficient concern i'll them to warrant a |
special defense of the one he represents, |
is a long stride. The skill with which |
Mr.. Dodd presents his case, the adroit
ness with which lie brings out all that |
can be said III defense. both of trusts i'll |
general and of the Standard in particu |
lar, while he repreSses mention of the |
means used to obtain the power held, |
fully warrant his employment by that |
company. needing constantly as ii does |
such special skill. He displays his |
adrotneSS in the assumption on which |
he basis his whole argument, that there !
is nothing more contrary to public pol |
icy i'll combination such as is the |
Standard than there is in a partner |
slip or any other association for bus |
mess purposes. The question involves, |
he says, on one side. the assertion of the |
right of association for business pur
poses, and Oh the other, a denial |
of the right because association |
tends to monopoly. tends to
increase prices, tends to suppress COM
petition, and tends to crush out indi- |
viduai industry. The advocates of lib
erty of association admit that assOcia- |
ton conferS power on the associates;
that it gives them an advantage over
unassociated individuals, and that such |
power may be used for evil as well as
for good. On the other hand. they al
lege that association is necessary in
strument of modern industry; that it CO.
operates with and is made necessary by
the steam engine, the railroad and the
power loom, and that, while these in
StrumentalitieS of modern industry may
produce some evils. such evils are more
than counterbalanced by the advan-
tages conterred." He traces what he
terms the struggle for the right to free
ASSOCIATION, through several centuries.
noting that this right was first asserted
by labOrers and sought to be denied and
it's exercise repreSsed by statute, and
extending to trade associations later.
In the repeal of laws against combina-
tons of workmen, against combinations
to fix prices and those restricting bust
ness associations. he says, 1.-THE battle of
trusts in England has been fought and
won" His definition of trust does
not meet the general conception, nor is
it to be accepted as full. The aim of
the trust, in the proper sense of the
word, was to use the corporations of
different states as agencies in a joint
business. If corporations could be
formed under the federal law a trust
would never have been heard Of" The
accepted conception of trust is a cor
poration formed for the purpose of
obtaining the actual ownership of the
properties of persons or corporations
engaged in the same or cOgnate
lines of industry, either by youn-
taly combination or voluntary or COM
pulsory sale. for the purpose OF placing
all the products of that especial indus
try under the absolute control, as to
ont nut and pricn of the cOrDOrate