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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
A SUGGESTION.

The tenth Of the thirty reasons
that constitute the preface to Mr..
Harvey's contention with Mr.. Horr
seems to call for some other measure
than that of the free coinage of sill
yer at 16 to 1. If, as stated, Eng
land by her operations in Africa, and
her stealing of territory in Venezu-
ella, controls most of the gold sup
ply of the world, and gets the bal
ance by reason of the world owing
it to her on gold bonds" the prop
er remedy would seem to be to de-
spoil her of her possessions in Afri-
ca, and rob her of her stolen terri
tory in Venezuela, and repudiate the
gold obligations. To leave that
much-dreaded country in possession
Of the gold supply of the world and
abandon its use ourselves would be
like cutting off ones nose to spite
ones face.
Judging from the tone of all silver
lite references to England, their chief
desire is to do something to iniure
that country. Leaving her alone to
do what she wants to do, and which
benefits her in doing, will hardly
move her to desist from a course
that excites their ire. Clearly, the
sensible way will be to Immediately
declare war upon England, invade
Africa and reduce her colonies there
to subsection to this country; drive
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18

ly from manufacturers, and "over
five million pounds were sold last
week grown west. Of the Missouri
river"
While the history of wool prices
shows that they were the highest
under free trade and have dimin-
ished steadily under and in spite Of
all attempts to maintain them by
protective tariff, still no one eau
afford to base his judgment of pol
1cies on these two facts simply, and
omit the other enormous forces that
in thirty years have been operative
The development Of sheep-raising in
Australia and the Argentines; the
competition in our own country of
the high-priced lands of the Middle
states with the free ranges of Texas
and Colorado, have all been factors.
What the free trader does insist
on, and what the range of prices
Justifies him in asserting, is that
protective tariffs have no power to
raise or maintain prices; and that
wool, as every other commodity, will
be best served by permitting it to be
raised, sold and exchanged under
the freest of conditions. In the
REPUTATION of the prediction that
prices would slump when the tax was
removed; in the increased activity
of the mills with free material with
the recovery in the prices of wool
answering to this increase he sees
the justification of his position; and
looks confidently to the future, not
indeed, for a restoration of the prices
of thirty years ago, but for a steadi-
ness of values and demand that will
make sheep husbandry a source of
profit to our farmers.
The coming congress, we venture
to predict, will not attempt to put a
tax on imports Of wool. 1t is mighty
hard to re-enslave an article once set
free. Mckinley tried to do it with
hides and failed. Free wool adds an
other to the object lessons taught by
quinlne and hides. Had a Repub-
llcan congress put all sugars on the
free list, instead of taxing the re-
fined in order to shelter and main
tain the sugar trust, the last con-
gress would not have been able to
tax imports even for revenue.
The formers who yet imag-
Inc they were hurt by free
wool might as well give up and
join the rest of us now in an effort
to get freer woolens. Fifty per
cent protection on them is absurd
as we'll as outrageous.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18

gold and silver are "the money of
the constitution" and that the con-
stitution was disregarded when the
act of 1873 dropped the silver dollar
from the list of our coins.
In the same line is the repeated as
sertion of Mr.. Harvey that silver is
the peoples money" and the poor
mans money" All this is folderol,
aimed at the galleries and designed
to provoke the applause of the
thoughtless. These expressions are
only empty phrases, self-contradic-
tory and absurd. Everybody knows
that there is not a poor mans
money" and a rich mans money"
in this country. Either is equally
glad to get a good dollar, no matter
of what material it is made. More
over, it must be remembered that if
we hold Harveyites to the strict let
ter of their creed, which says that
gold and silver are "the money of
the constitution" we should be
obliged to exclude the greenback,
the national bank note and every
other form of paper money. Not
one of them would admit this
proposition. Not one of them would
agree that, even with free coinage of
silver, we could afford to destroy our
present stock of paper money and
prohibit future issues. Yet if the
argument is that it is unconstitu-
tional not to have free coinage of
silver because of the clause in the
constitution Which we have quoted,
then it must be equally true that it
is unconstitutional to issue and make
tender in payment of debts another
kind Of money, namely paper, which
is not mentioned in the constitution
at all. So far, the debate has waged
around the unmeaning common
places that constitute so large a
share of the silver discussion. The
public need not expect anything
more forceful until the disputants
reach the only practical question in
the whole subject: SHOULD we have
free coinage by the United States
alone at the ratio of Is to 1?'
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18

vate individual or company. One
or the other of these two policies
should be adopted. It has been
shown that the purpose of the
schemers who have run the Mic
aragua canal business thus far is to
promote a gigantic speculation out
OF Which they may take millions of
unearned money, just as was done
by the managers of the subsidized
Pacific railroad. The methods which
have been used from the beginning
reflect their motives. Not upon the
merits Of their scheme do they rely.
but upon a sensational report of the
danger of a forfeited concession,
which probably has no basis in fact,
and is surely circulated at this time
only to create an opinion that will
help to rush the scheme of public
plumber through the next congress.
This country has ten times the
need of a deep waterway from the
head of the Great Lakes to the At
lantic ocean that it has of a canal
across the isthmus. There is ten
times the demand for it by com
merce which is not hypothetical or
supposititious,b but which actually ex-
lists today and cIamors for the re-
moval of the disadvantages imposed
upon it by the inadequacy Of our
northern water route. There is ten
times the prospect of a favorable
effect upon our industries by the
completion of this work. 1t will
add ten dollars to the business
of the United States and save
ten dollars to producer and con-
sumner for every dollar that could
be obtained by carrying out the Mic
aragua plan. Let us first look out
for our domestic interests and pro-
vide ourselves with home facilities
before we go off into another
part Of the world to engage
in an international operation at the
peoples expense. We should not con-
slider the Nicaragua canal PROPOSE
ton at all until we have completed
our national waterway from the
interior to the sea. We should not con-
slider it even then, except on the ba-
sis above stated. When the time
comes to build an isthmian canal, let
it be done either by private capital,
under private auspices, or by the
public treasury at the public expense
and absolutely under public control.
No boodling speculation has evinced
more tenacity of life than the Mic
aragua scheme. That it intends to
capture the next congress is certain.
The friends of public honesty should
be equally alert, and kill it while
there is yet time.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
INCOME TAX ESTIMATES.
Speculation on Results That
Might Have been

WASHINGTON, July IT, The inter-
nal revenue bureau has practically
completed the work of recording and
scheduling the returns received under
the income-taX act, and very soon will
be ready to begin the work of refund
ing the amounts paid before the law
was declared unconstitutional. The APP
plications for refund, however, are
coming in very slowly. No classifica-
tons to determine the occupations of
the taxpayers or the relative amounts
paid by each state or section of the
country have been made thus far, but
judging from the reported handling of
the returns a tolerably close estimate
of some of the principal deductions
which will be made later can now be
stated. They are, however, only APP
proximations. From the returns made
it is believed that fully one-half of the
number of persons subject to the tax
made no return whatever, and this pro-
portion is believed to be even greater
I'm respect to the amounts of tax in
Volved. The aggregate Of the returns
made represent about $1J,00O,O00 of tax,
and hence about $30,OO0OOO, tt is cal
culated, would have been collected IL
all who were subject to the tax had
sent IN returns. II IS also estimated
that the first decision OF the supreme
court, exemptfng rents ana receipts
from bonds from the operation Of the
act, resulted in a loss Of fully Sl5,-
O00,OC0 so that had the law remained
as fl originally stood the total receipts
from this source. according 10 esti-
mates now made, would have approx
mated sf5,O00,000, or even $jO,O00.001.
AS TO the proportion of the tax which
would have been borne by each section
of the country, only a rough estimate
can now be made. The returns seem
to indicate that the New England and
Middle states would have paid about
two-thirds of the whole tax, and the
Western and Southern sections each
about one-sixth of the whole.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
What Women musicians Earn.

Probably there is no field where moro
varying wage is paid to women tnan
in the realm of music The greatest
and the lowest sums are alike received
by them in this profession, while the
average is probably as good as that re-
ceived by women workers in any other
field. Nine. Patti is remarkable not
only as the greatest of living Vocalists,
but as the best-paid woman worker in
the world She has frequently re-
ceived s. 900 night for a performance,
and has not sung for many years past
for less than $1,000. Nine. Melba's fee,
whether for concert or opera, is never
less than $1,000. Nine. Eames and Nine.
Nordica received each $7OO for their
operate performances during the sea-
son just past. The latter's invariable
fee for singing in concert or opera is
$500. Nine. Calve received $500 per-
formance during the season of 1894.
These prices are paid, it will be no
ticed, only to those who are the greatest
in their art Each of these women is not
only an artist, but also a beautiful
woman and clever actress.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
Oldest Book in the world.

st. Louis Republic.
A leading German journal calls at
tention to the fact that probably tho
Oldest book in the world is the Papyrus
PrisSe, one of the treasured posses
sions of the great National library in
Paris. This document was found by
Prisse in a tomb in Thebes, which COLI
tanned also a mummy of the First
Theban Dynasty. This circumstance
alone shows that the book certainly
dates back twenty-five centuries be-
fore Christ, and an examination shows
that it really belongs to a much earlier
age, namely, the time of King ASA.
The title reads: "Injunceions of the
Praefect Ptah-Hotep, who lived in the
time of ASA, the King of the North
and the South" Chronology places
this ASA at about 1850 B. c., and to
this age it would then seem that this
book belongs 1t is divided into forty
four chapters, and is written in hieratic
rhythmic language. 1t directs its
words to the higher classes, and COLI
tains for these a series of maxims and
sayings 1t advises those in authority
to show in all their doings the char
acteristics of perfect man. The
ideal of the high official should be wis
dom and science and these guides he
should heed He is further not to abuse
his power, is to be modest and mod
crate. for only in this way can he Sc
cure the good opinion of future gem
erations The author tells US that he
has grown to be 40 years of age. and
had attained to all the hOnorS ana
favors which Egyptian royalty could
beStOW
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
AT THE THEATERS.
l.Fa1kny at the Metro,o,itan,

The Wilbur Opera company give their
nrst performance of '-FaIka" at the
regular Thursday matinee at the Met
ropoitan opera house this afternoon.
In this opera coInique the music is
beautiful, the comedy excellent, the
costumes handsome, the scenery gor-
geous-in fact, all requisites unite to
ensure its success. When the Wflburs
presented this opera in this city two
years ago, it made a decided hit with
all Observation-Disclosures, the house be-
ing packed at every performance, and
M Wilbur received many requests to
nave It continued after its run of one
week This season it will doubtless
score greater success than ever. as
all the conditions are more favorable
than they We're then.
Have you seen the living pictures?
is the now quite the question of the
day in st. Paul, and it is not to be
wondered at that they have gained the
admiration and appreciation of all who
have seen them. They are the height
Of perfection from an artistic stand
point, and are really more beautiful
than the well-known works of we'll
known artists from which they are
taken. A series will be presented at
the close of each opera.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
Poverty of Great Composers.

Poverty seems to have been the lot Of
most of the worlds great musicians.
Beethoven was always poor. He was
the son of a rough, drunken musician,
who drove him to music with blows.
He afterward followed his profession
for the love of it, but it repaid him very
badly.
Handel was the son of coachmaker,
and his mother had been a servant.
Although he had a place in the choir
of the church as a boy, he was dis
missed when his voice changed and
became really destitute. A poor wom-
house, and in after and more pros
porous years the musician was able to
return the favor twice-told, which ha
did heartily and cheerfully
Rossini was also poor, and while in
Venice he wrote in bed during cold
weather, TO save the expense of a fire.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
TODAY1S WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, July T.-Forecast
for Tuesday: For Minnesota and North
Dakota: Showers; variable winds.
For Wisconsin: Partly cloudy; cooler
In southern portion; northerly winds,
becoming variable.
For South Dakota: Showers; cooler;
variable winds.
For Montana: Showers; cooler in eX.
IRENE southeast portions; northerly
winds.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
United States Department of Agri-
culture, Weather Bureau, Washing
ton, July II, 6:4S p. m. Local time,
& p. n. 18th Meridian Time.-Observu-
tions taken at the same moment of
ume at all stations.
TEMPERATURES.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
The Profit No Inducement.


PhlIadeIphla Times.
Most of the gold in the country, ex-
cept that in the United States treas
ury, is held by the banks as a reserve
for the protection Of their depositors.
If they could pay their depositors in
business on the profits. And they
would have to retire, because nobody
would ever again trust a bank that
did such a thing. And nobody would
trust a nation that proposed that debts
contracted on a basis of one hundred
cents to the dollar should be paid in
dollars of fifty cents.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18

parties of three or four men, Upon the
completion of the reconnaissance of the
st. Louis river route a regular survey
party was put into the field, and ran
a transit and level line across the pro-
posed summit level. The results OBJ
tanned from other "Reminiscences de-
term1ned me to put one regular survey
party in the field over these routes.
This party started in May and is now
in the field, working on Allouez bay.
1t is expected the survey will be fin
ished Nov. l."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18

The G b gives place with pleas
ure to a communication from a mem
Der of the Third regiment, relating
to the recent scandal In connection
with the escape of two girls from
the school at Redwing. We can I'M
derstand readily how the members
feel about this occurrence; and are
certain that the public does not
think of such thing as holding the
whole body responsible for an esca-
pade in which only two or three men
are said to have had any part. There
has certainly been no wholesale
charge in the G II o against the
regiment, nor do we believe that
any one has thought of rejecting
upon it the discredit that these men
have brought upon themselves. The
story as it has been told describes
both the offense and such mitigating
circumstances as were connected
with 1T. To hold the regiment as
whole responsible would be both un-
just and absurd. The guilty parties
will be punished, as they should be,
by the proper authorities, but the
Third regiment will not suffer for
their misdeeds in the public estima-
ton.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
He VIII Rule or Ruin.

Pittsburg Post.
If he carries his way in the coming
state convention the impression IS
strong the Democrats may lose the
state. Ex-Governor and ex-senator
William Pinckney Whyte in a recent
interview saws "an attempt to nomi-
nate, q. state ticket hostile to President
Cleveland's course on the Issues of the
day, and intended to sustain the course
of the Maryland senators on the tariff
It'll. will simply provoke atSa ster to
the Democratic cause"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
But the Men Are Different.

Boston Post.
The bonds of international comfy
and friendly treaty restrain the United
States from active interference in this
trouble; but it is not surprising that
the sympathy of the American people
should go out to the men who are
re-enacting, under a tropical sun, the
drama of liberty played century and
a quarter ago under northern skies.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
Present Law Sufficient.

Omaha Bee.
We believe the existing laws are all
that are needed to protect us against
undesirable immigrants if they are
strictly and honestly administered, and
certainly no addition to them is to be
desired the tendency of which would
be to increase the difficulties in the
way of worthy immigrants, for whom
there is still room and opportunity in
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18

A Florida scientist has calculated
that little girl, in eating her food,
exercises force of forty-five pounds
with her incisors alone, and seventy
i've pounds with her moIars. If he
mad taken a battery of grewn-up
girls. each furnished with a wad
of chewing gum, he might have OBJ
tanned energy enough to run a street
railway system.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18

her out of South America, and ap-
propriate the disputed territory to
ourselves. Such a. policy would APP
peal irresistibly to the Republican
jingoists, and bring them to a man
to the support of the silverite cause.
We submit to Mr.. Harvey and his
eminent associates this practical
and promising suggestion.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18

The Englishman is said to clearly
love lord" and for one of the
lower or middle classes to be kicked
by one of the nobility is considered
a distinction. The Times-Herald has
London correspondent who reveals
in a recent letter this chronic atti-
tude. He says, Great was my for
tune to be placed in the railway car
riage next to that occupied by Mr..
Gladstone on the way down to Ha-
warden" To be sure, Mr. Gladstone
bears no title of nobility, but he
holds his title to prominence by
virtue of gift not within the power
OF the queen to bestow-the royalty
OF brains that have won for him a
rank higher than any indicated by
star or garter. This entities him to
share with the nobility that respect
full homage which regards it as a
piece of great fortune" to ride in
the same train with people of rank.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
Pensions.

WASHINGTON, July H.-North-
western pensions We're granted yester-
day as follows:
South Dakota-Increase David A.
Warner, Forest City; Henry A. Rams
dale, CanoYa.
Wisconsin-Original: Joseph Roller,
Packwaukee; David A. Servis, Osh-
kosh; Christian Knospe, Ahnapee;
henry a. Chase, Marshfield; Fred
erick Smith, Naugart; Wencel Novak,
Castle Rock. Increase: Phillip Bauer,
Milwaukee; Edwin Pike, Boscobel.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
Statesman, Not a wag.

Helena Independent.
Gladstone does well to be angry If
one wag of his little finger would save
the whole Liberal party from perdition
political, that little finger should not
"ag. Never a wag.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
Deer skinners.

river, in Oregon, that the systematic
slaughtering of them for their hides
alone is a profitable business. the meu
engaging in 1t being known locally az
deer SINNERS"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
Their.
DAILY MEANS

Barometer 1904: thermometer, 6S;
relative humidity, 80; wind, northwest;
weather, clear: maximum thermome-
ter, IS; minimum thermometer, 81;
daily range, p; amount of rainfall in
la ST tWentV-fOur hours O.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
RIVER AT s A. NJ.

Note-Barometer corrected for tenn
pelature and elevation.
p. f. LYONS,
Forecast Official.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
sUPERfoR-MIsstss1prt.

Maj. Sears says about the survey
of a route for canal between Lake
Superior and the Mississippi river:
THE appropriation was wholly mad
equate to cover the ground, and it was
arranged to explore all the route over
the best-known portions by exploring
Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-02-08
Resolutions.

The following resolutions were pass
ed:
In as much as the Farmers Institute
Of the State of Indiana has grown to
such proportions as to cause increased
expenses, Therefore be it
Resolved, That or senator and rep
resentatiye IN the legislature be request
to use their influence 10 secure the ap
preparation OF $4,000 per annum in
stead OF 5000 for their support.
2nd, Whereas, There IS now pending
before tie general assembly Of our
state, proceedings tor the scientific
temperance Instructions III our public
schools. And
NuENEAS, Our state Of Indiana is
one OF the four, and the only northern
state sharing the unenyiable distinc-
ton of not haYlngsuch law,
Resolved, That the citizens of Marshall
county, here assembled, Go indorse the
action to secure such law, and petition
our Hon. representative to use his in
f1uence to secure the same.
Resolved, That il is our opinion and
sentiment that there should be some
practical legislation for the purpose of
limiting and restricting the powers of
township trustees III purchasing school
ana road supplies.
Resolved, That it is the sentiment of
this institute that our representatives in
the Legislature vote for Senate Bills No.
81 and 66, with proper amendments to
make them efficient for the purposes
they are intended.
Resolved, That the institute tender a
vote of thanks to Its efficient officers,
the institute workers both home and
abroad, and to all who assisted in max
ing it success.
JOIN y. MCFARLIN,
y. y. SOUTH,
SAM'L. :. KELLER.