St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-15


newspaper proprietors a sacrifice they
will hardly feel like making. The
| most reckless panderer to the degener-
ates among the daily newspapers is
the most prosperous, while the most
inveterate opponent to ShamS among
them, the Evening Pest, is only mod
erately prosperous.
woodrow Wilson contends that 1.-THE
Proper Perspective of American His
tory" is to be obtained from the points
OF view covered by the states of New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania;
while the histories of the country have
been written, for the most part by
men Of New England, they have view
ed 1T as an Expansion of New Eng
land" The Southern historical writer
sees in the history the Suppression of
the South The true perspective, he
maintains, is to be had from the
| states named, of which the great West
is but a projection. From them the
population has gone forth that has
| peopled the valleys and prairies, car
rying with them their local coloring.
In an entertaining, if not a convincing
| manner, Mr.. Wilson endeavors to es-
| tablish his thesis.
Frederick Harrison continues in this
| number his interesting studies of prom
inent litterateurs with the discussion of
| Charles Kingsleys Place in Literal
ture." He protests that he does not do
this as a critic. nor with a critical
spirit, but writes rather from the point
of view Of the "the historian of ideas
! and of manners" Kingsley he says,
was a man who "was half a poet and
half controversialist. The two ele-
ments did not blend we'll together.
His poetic passion carried away his
reason, and often confused his logic.
His argumentative vehemence too oft
en- marred his fine imagination. But,
with all these defects, he left some
fine and abiding influences behind
them, and achieved some brilliant
things"
The editor of the Forum evidently
considers the currency question still
with us, and gives place to two arti-
cles, one by Prof. Laughlin, entitled
Coins Food for the Gullible," and one
by William Soloman, who maintains
that Sound Currency" is "the Dom
inant Political Issue" In the lack of
training and fundamental education i'll
the great mass of the people, in the
ignorance and gulIibility of many, and
more prominently, in the distress that
followed the panic of 1893, the professor
finds the appetite which fed so raven
ously on COINS food" He discusses
briefly the leading faIlacies of Mr.
Rarvey's phenomenally popular book
and shows by historical facts and
statistical figures how fallacious they
are Mr.. Soloman adds nothing new to
the argument for a sound currency.
He evidently assumes that it is all in
volved in the question of the free
coinage of silver, While that is but one
phase, and that a rapidly passing one
One might infer from his article that
he regards the present system of slr-
rency as sound one to be maintaine
when the silver craze has subsidized
It would be rash to predict what will
be the dominant issue in the next
campaign, but it is certain that the
agitation of the currency question will
continue until the crazy-quilt system
imposed on us by Republican incom- |
potency is abolished and one estab- |
lished on principles approved by the |
experience of centuries.
cles, and related to them only because |
of similar psychological conditions, is |
an article by ex-senator E. c.. Ross, |
who represented Kansas in the senate |
thirty years ago, on GA Previous Era !
of Popular Madness and Its Lessons"
Mr.. Ross was one of the seven Repub-
lican senators who refused to bow to |
the command of their party that Presi- |
dent Johnson be impeached and re-
moved from office. They accepted the |
decree of party ostraciSm, that they |
knew would be issued, rather than |
stultify their judgments and their con- |
sciences by an unjust and unrighteous |
verdict. All of these senators, except |
Trumbull, were promptly retired to |
private life, and none again obtained |
recognition in their party, except Hen |
derson, of Missouri, who, we believe,
presided over a subsequent national |
convention. note states that Mr.. |
Ross is engaged in writing a history of |
the impeachment trial, an event that is |
notable as an illustration of the reck- |
lessness, cruelty and tyranny that |
majorities in republic are capable of. |
One whose days and nights are spent |
amid the whirl and rapid rush of sue
ceeding events that tread with i'm
patient, thronging steps on each others |
heels, clamorous for attention, thought |
and comment, turns the pages of the |
Metaphysical Magazine with much the |
same sensation one has who steps from |
the crowded. noisy, busting street |
into the calmness, the cool and the |
gloom of a sequestered church. AS one !
scans it's topics and dips into their |
treatment the picture rises before the |
eye of a group of old men sitting in !
the cleaning about a table streWn !
with books. in a room lined with |
shelves, gravely smoking their long
pipes and discussing the abstruse and
reconcile questions, the eternal and |
nsoluble mysteries, that life is ever |
presenting Every one knows some
thing by his own experience of the |
masterful power of the will to hold |
faculties to their work; knowing it as |
often, perhaps, by its failure as it's sue
cess; but one reads with incredulity |
the statements, in ''The Power of |
Concentration" by c. Standard Wake, |
in the current number, of what Hindu |
Rishis have accomplished by the exer-
else of this power in the subordination |
of the physical and the development |
share this doubt, but believes that !
cultivation of the will is possible and |
that, when sufficiently developed, the !
mind can receive and interpret the |
etheric vibrations caused directly or
indirectly by thought just as easily as
it does the subtle fluctuations of
light"
In one way or another, and in more
or less fullness, all reading people
have heard something of 'The. Mes
sage. of India" Blavatsky has been
adored and ridiculed and Anna Besant
has spoken to us like an inspired
prophecies of yore. There has risen a
sect calling themselves Theosophists,
and, as one reads of it's growth, one
wonders whether from a still farther
East there is to come to us of the
West q naW-nJ6 |