St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-03
To Help Greece.

seismic disturbances of little moro than a
year ago. Japan made no appeal to the
world for aid, and nobody attempted to pass
round the hat among the nations in order to
collect for her SUFFERING The Japanese like
all manly people, Showed that they were
abundantly able to care for themselves. We.
of course, sympathize with those who have
lost friends and property in Greece, but we
do not feel like encouraging the sentiment
talists in America who are now trying to APP
peal to our philapthEophy by telling us that
Greece is the "Niobe of nations" and that
all that is best inseura literature and culture
have come from Greek sources. While recog-
nizing to the fullest extent all that ancient
Greece has donet for literature and art, we
can see no reason. why we should go into
raptures over the modern Greek. Like the
descendants of e;od Romans he has sadly
degenerated from the standards of his ances-
tors. While dwelling on the past, the
modern Greek has given little or no thought
to the present His efforts for Greek liberty
have been weak and puerile, and he has been
more ready to sell his sword to the Turkish
oppressor than to use it for the freedom and
independence Of his own country. The
academies of the ancient Greeks were grand,
and the teachings of their philosophers re-
main the most glorious heritage of the ages;
but modern Greece has done as little for
literature as the modern Greek has done for
independence. The very ruins that gave
them character among the nations of
Europe and showed what their ancestors
were, they have battered away for mess
of potage to the museum hunters of other
lands. stIe
OF all European nations, Greece is the
most backward, and the modern Greek.
with few exceptions, is as ignorant and su-
perstitious as his Turkish master. It should
be remembered, too, that King George does
not control subjects majority of the
people who call themselves Greeks. The
Greeks who come to America are not a
desirable class of immigrants. They bring
with them neither capital nor skilled labor;
they are neither artists, artisans nor mer-
chants. We see them ON our streets, great
hulking, bearded men, selling flowers, or
dickering with school children for the sale of
unwholesome sweets. We are quite willing
to aid Greece, just as we should be to aid
the natives on the banks of the Congo, but
we hold that it is as senseless as it is un-
American to pass around the hat to raise
money for people, simply because they are
the degenerate descendants of a race that
commands our admiration, and with which,
in contrast, they are degraded pigmes.
An Incident In the Life OF Ex-Governor
.~ Hauser, of Montana.
..-t. NEW YORK, June l.
An interesting visitor to New York at the
present time is Ex-Governor Samuel T.
Hauser, of Montana. Hauser. has probably
had more to do1w4tht the development Of his
State than any other man. Hauser went to
Montana from Kentucky by way of Missouri.
He was a civil engineer with turn for
finance. Combining banking with railroad
building, he organized national banks at
Helena, Butte, Benton and Missoula; con-.
structed branch railroads that have since
been absorbed by the Northern Pacific; in
vested in mining enterprises, and was sue
cessful in all. Impatient of small undertake
ings, with quick grasp Of large ones, he is
irrepressibly active, Incapable of fatigue,
Indifferent to obstacles. Out of his many
ventures he has accumulated a fortune
estimated at s., 000,600 or 100000 now,
and great deal more in prospect All over
8 the mineral belt he has the keenest of pros
pectors at work searching for new mining
fields. When he finds one that heis satisfied
will pay he swoops down on the Northern
Pacific people to offer to build road to the
newly-discovered mine. If it does not pay
twelve per cent or more on its cost the first
year it is operated they need not take it. If
It does pay he is to receive stipulated sum,
| which it is supposed is large enough to re-
imburse him for his enterprise and give him
an ample profit besides. Without being a
public-spirited man in any philanthrop;c
sense, he has in his way contributed more to
Montanas growth than any other single in
dividual in the State.
Hauser is what Richard Croker would call
"goed man to tie to-" resolute, steadfast
and manly. An incident told me recently by
one of his friends confirms this view. It
happened long before he became banker
and capitalist Some time in 1868 he went
with a party of ten or twelve men into the
Yellowstone country, prospecting for gold
and town sites. The region was swarming
with hostile Indians and the party's expe-
riences were terrible. Some were killed,
time so desperate that a wounded man de-
fberately blew out his brains in order that
he might not be a hindrance to the rest of
the party in their escape. Being again pur-
sued by the Indians the party got to the
mountains, where there was dim old trail,
and prepared to make stand and fight.
The trail ran along under large rock. The
captain Of the band thought it would be bet
ter to send one or two men Oh the dim trail
around behind the rock, but did not like to
order any one to go, as they would have to
receive the whole fire of the Indians, who
were supposed to be there from smoke col
umns that had been SEEN. Having prepared
for battle and started ahead, Hauser said to
the ca plain, addressing him Familiarity: "Jim,
if we all so under those rocks this way they
will kill the last one of US at first fire.
SCI know it would be better to send two
men above and behind those rocks" said the
captain, 'sbat it is like sending men to GER
tain death and I don't like to do it, although
it would improve the chances of the others
getting through" -,
eff you think it viii increase the chances
of more getting through, I'll 60" was Haus-
ers reply, who presently mounted his rony,
cooked his rifle and spurred off. One of his
companions, whose left arm was already dis
abled by all Indian arrow, spurred after him.
Fortunately the Indians had for some reason
retraatad and an htIylsc later tDey vera ;oire,J