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St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-09
STREAMING OUT A GNAT.

A Minneapolis paper, of the ortho-
doX Mckinley stripe, announces to
it's readers that that city is to have
a higher tax rate, for the coming
year, and then it goes on to give
the details which will make rate
Of 221a mills necessary, resulting in
total taxation Of 81, ,046,775 It states
that the board will meet next Mon
day to fix the tax levy. Here is a
tax that requires every property
owner to put up 1925 for each $10O
worth of property he owns, that is
listed; that is $40 per capita for
each man, woman and child in the
| city; a tax that is more than twice
that collected last year by the fed
| eraI government at the customs
houses. It is a higher per capita
rate than that Of the customs when
the receipts were the largest.
Winding the frantic protests of
this paper when the Democrats de-
Clebl Gu IL Ihcll pun pOSC " uCCI case
the federal imposts; recalling it's
| pathetic picture Of the devastation
| that would be wrought were the
| taxes reduced; passing over in mem
| ory it's fierce denunciations Of the
| Democrats for bringing the wreck
and ruin of '93 on the industries of
| the country because of their tentative
| action, and reading, in the same is
| sue, its demonstration that the less
slaughtered 4,979,4 of the sheep of
| the country, one turns to the edi-
torial pages expecting surely to find
there some kind of comment on the
proposed tax levy. Knowing the
| bias Of the paper, it's partiality for
| high taxation, it's adherence Of low
rates, one naturally expects to find
there an eloquent appeal to the
board to increase the rate. With the
rate made by it's political fetch,
some 40 per cent, one expects it to
compare it with the beggarly 221a
mills, and to ask the taxing
powers if Minneapolis can afford to
be behind Republican congress in
fostering her local industries, ac-
companied by all the wealth of ar
gument, illustration and invective
that adorn its editorials when the
tariff is disturbing it's brain.
And, singular as it may seem,
there is not word of editorial COM
| ment in it. There is a far-a,say ed
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-09
APPLY AT HEADQUARTERS.

To the Editor of the Globe.
Can you answer the query, why Gen.
James Compton is allowed to draw two
salaries, to wit: AS surveyor general
of the state and as bank examiner? Is
1t because he is a good Democrat or
is it because he sold out Washburn's S
interest to Nelson and Clough last
winter? Why does he hold on to the
surveyor generalship, and is it lawful
to draw two salaries, as he does? ?
Yours truly, MIC. ANDERSON.
We are unable to answer our cor
respondent. We can give him only
the facts and suggest a course. Mr..
ComptOn's term of Office as surveyor
general of the state expires on Feb.
IA, 1886. He was appointed assist
ant bank examiner of this state, and
asked the secretary of the interior
TO relieve him of his office of surveyor
general. He performs the duties of
both offices and draws the salaries
of both. He is right in this, and it
is not his fault that he has to. In
May Secretary Smith promised :hat
an appointment should be made the
succeeding week. Possibly, in the
multifarious details of his office, he
has overlooked or forgotten the mat
ter. We suggest that our CORE
spondent apply to him for informa-
tiOn.-Ed.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-09
PIER0LA INAUGURATED.
Peru's New President Promises t.,
Queu Disorder.

LIMA, Peru, via Galveston. Tex.
sept. S.-LiTla presents a gay spectacIa
today, the festival being in honor of
the assumption OF the Office Of presi-
cent by Senior Nicola Pierola. who was
recently elected TO it The streets are
fulI OF a great throng Of both sexes
ana or all classes Of people. The
route to the palace is lined with troops,
and Hags are flying from all points,
WhlIe along the streets at different
points arches have been erected. The
houses along the route are covered
with gay wreaths and bright fiow-
erS.
President Pierola. made an atten1Dt
thlS morning TO so TO the cathedral
TO attend mass, but he was obliged 20
return unsuccessful. as the great
crowds of enthusiastic people barred
his passage and almost mobbed him
IN their efforts TO kiss his hand. Pres
Ident P-erola addressed the people as
follows:
Worn out with misfortune. Perm
has risen resolved to end the horrors
OF the past year. Neither conflicting
opinions nor contrary interests must
divide us, and our only thought must
be for the good Of the nation. The
country demands this, and no true
patriot viii refuse the call. You and I
nave received the peoples mandate
In the performance Of my duty ! shall
act with an eye s:nSly to the common
good of the people and the iahorers.
At this solemn moment of accepting
on oath the charge can only say that
all hands must work together. trusting
each to do his duty
The following cabinet has been an
nounced: Home. Antonio Beutin: ius-
tice, Augusta Albarracin: foreign. Mel
itOn POrraS; war, DOynin-S Parras:
finance, FTederIcC BraSani.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-09
VALID CRITICISM.

A correspondent, whose communi-
cation we publish this morning,
makes a keen metaphysical anal
ysis of the inherent hostility between
socialism and altruism. The whole
argument of the socialist is that his
scheme is one for the Improvement
of both the material and moral con-
ditions of mankind. Whatever log
ical foundation he may lay as a sup
port for his system, his strongest
appeal, in the last resort, is to the
sentiment Of helpfulness. He pur-
poses to create a vast governmental
machine whose practical operation
will result in regime of universal
brotherly kindness. The letter re-
ferred to points out the fallacy
of this hypothesis, resulting from
its confusion of the emotional with
the intellectual operations of the
mind. Altruism, which is the de-
sire Of one man to aid all of us, is,
as the writer says, an emotional i'm
pulse. Plans for the betterment Of
the race, which depend upon the
emotional instincts of humanity,
would in the socialistic state
be crystallized into systems. When
this is attempted they not only
lose their vitality, but end in de-
feating what they originally purpose
to accomplish.
The scheme Of socialism must at
the last seek support upon an ap-
peal to the intellect. 1t proposes a
scheme Of government which is moth
ing less than a most complicated
machine. Let this once be erected
and put in motion, and the senti-
ments and feelings of mankind must
yield to it. There can be no Ques-
ton that the true altruist would
find in a socialistic state of society
more individual suffering and in
justice, more wrongs to be redressed,
and more reforms to be instituted
than are discoverable in govern
ments as they are. In brief, altru-
ism is essentially an individual af-
fair; while socialism aims first Of ali
at the destruction Of individualism.
The distinction drawn is valid
against the claims Of the socialistic
school.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-09
CHINESE NOT HOSTILE.
outrages TraceabIe to Officials.
Says Ex-Secretary Foster

s.
Says Ex-secretary Foster.
WATERTOWN, N Y, Sept. 8.-Hon.
John w. Foster, ex-secretary of state
ana the recent counsel for the Chinese
government, in an address on foreign
missions here tonight, spoke as follows
on the recent riots in China:
The opinion formed by me after
careful inquiry and observa ton, is thar
the mass of the population in China
particularly the common people. are
@ dod specially hostile to the missionaries
nave occurred, but they are almost in
Yarlably traced to the literal or
prospective oficeholders and the r1II-
nls classes They are often bigoted
anu anu cohcelted to the highest degree and
regard the teachings of the mis-
sl0narles as tending to overthrow the
existing order of government and So
celety, which they look upon as a per
Iect system and sanctified by great
antiquity. The war with Japai Which
resulted IN a hUmiliating peace and
the loss OF territory, has greatly
weakened the imperial authority and
the dlSbandment of several hundred
thousand troops, mostly without re-
celVlng the pay due them, has added
10 the prevailing discomfort and dis
order. Under such circumstances, it
IS not strange that riots should occur.
But we in America should be chary of
our condemnation, when we recall the
many outrages which have been in
1lcted on Chinei5e subjects in the
United States, and remember that the
ROCK Springs, Wyo., trouble a few
Years ago, was equally cruel and fatal
IN its results and reflected more Sc
Verely on our authorities. I am. how
ever in full sympathy with the pre-
vail1ng demand in the United States
that the Chinese government should be
held to a strict account for these OUT
RACES, but in doing this, care should
be exercised by our government that
1t does not lend itself to advance the
sinister projects Of European govern
ments, which are on the alert to turn
the internal trouble of China TO their
own benefit. The United States is
strong enough to act independently of
European combinations and China has
never failed to comply with its just de-
mands.
There seems to be in q part of the
pubic press of our country a Iniscon-
cepIon Of the ground upon which our
government bases its intervention on
account Of these riots. II IS not be-
cause We are Christian country. and
are seeking to support a Christian
propagandisEn in China; it is simply
because the people in whose behalf our
government interVenes are American
citizens, pursuing an ayocation guar.
2nteed by treaty, and permitted by
Chinese laws
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-09

'Since have been in the horse busi-
ness" says /. H. Brockway, of Bos-
ton, Mass, there have been a great
many inventions. such as electric cars
and bicycles, which one would think
find that my trade has increased more
than 80 per cent in the last three years.
and there have been more horses sold
in Boston in the last year than ever
were sold in one year before. Why?
Because the horse has been sold more
cheaply, and more have been used
for pleasure, both under the saddle
and harness, and for heavy draft work
And, in my opinion, good horses will
be worth twice as much in two years
as they are now, because the farmers
in the West, where they are raised.
have got the idea that they would not
be worth raising"
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-09
That BewI1dering Statement.

Boston Herald.
In their present form the statements
are a delusion and a snare. They are
always more or less misleading, and
often their nisgUidance runs to very
large figures. The blame for originat-
ing this delusive form of debt State
ment does not rest with the present
Republican administration that the
monthly statements were given their
bewildering form. Charles Foster was
secretary of the treasury at the time,
and the country owes to his ingenuity
the sweet boon which it now enjoys
of being misinformed in regard to it's
financial status.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-09
OUR IRON Is KING

a Philadelphia paper, one of the
strictest OF the sect Of protectionists,
notes with surprise the advance in
pig iron of 81 a ton last week, in the
face of the fact that there is no
railway construction now going on
such as has heretofore always caused
the advances by the extent of its
demands. With no probability that
the construction this year will eX-
ceed if it equal 5000 miles, iron has
been steadily advancing since May.
There is an undertone of reluctance
in the comments of this paper that
shows q subconSciousness of the con-
fiict of it's admission of existing
conditions with its predictions Of
what was to happen, made so stren-
uously and cocksureIy a little more
than year ago.
Where is all this iron that is tum-
bling in pigs out of the furnaces
going, if not into railway construc-
ton? The output, if kept up, will
exceed that of any other year. The
lesser industries are absorbing it.
Iron and steel bridges are replacing
wooden ones. Structural steel is TAX
ing the place of brick and stone and
timber in building. Railways are re-
pairing tracks. And then there is
this new branch Of industry, applied
electricity, taking iron and steel
by the ton thousands and convert
ing them into dynamos, motors and
the marvellous diversity of imple-
ments it has created. All over the
land houses and stores are being
built and absorbing in the process
vast quantities of the metal. No
more significant indication of a re-
stored prosperity is there among the
many than this increase in the use
Of iron. And that it is not speculat-
i've, that it is solidly based, is shown
by the sustained increases in the
market price of pig iron. Last No
vember the export price Of iron was
S11.66 a ton, while the domestic price
was around $1075. In August, '94,
the price for warrants was $1075.
Notwithstanding the reduction of
the tax on imports Of iron, following
which, if the logic of protection is
infallible, there should have been a
sharp and commensurate decline,
there was no change either way. It
was not until May, this year, that
the price began to rise, and since
then it has advanced $6.25 a ton,
the rise of 81 noted bringing the price
to ST ton.
But there is another item of news
that is even yet more significant
and shows that the United States
has become the center of the iron
business of the world and rules the
markets. When iron values We're at
ebb tide, exports were made to
England and sold under English
prices. Birmingham had to meet it's
new competitor. Recently, when
iron here began to advance, the news
came from that center of British in
dustry that, owing to the advance Of
Americans, an advance was possible
there, and one was accordingly
made. This shows that it is now our
furnaces that set the pace that the
furnaces of the world must follow.
The star of iron empire has taken
it's way westward. American iron
rules the world.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-09
HERBERT GIVES ORDERS THAT
WORK ON VESSELS MUST
BE EXPEDITED.
DELAYS ARE INEXCUSABLE.
NOTICE GIVEN THAT NO RE-
BATES ON PENALTIES WILL
BE RECOMMENDED.
Secretary Says America VIII Lead
the World in ShipbuiId-
ing

WASHINGTON, Sept 8. eyes"
said Secretary Herbert today, cit is
true that 1 have given orders that
work on vessels under construction
for the navy shall be expedited. The
order embraces not only the work
on navy yard ships, but also the
work on vessels being built under
contract. All have been urged to
increased diligence"
Continuing, the secretary said:
'"The ships buildingin the navy yards
have been tagging for years. For
a long time the delay was for want
of armor, but armor is now being
furnished promptly. The Texas and
the Maine, the former of which has
just been put in commission, and the
latter Of which will be in a few
days, really ought to have been in
service months ago. Officials at
navy yards naturally desire to keep
regular force steadily employed.
The disposition is to take workmen
from ships that are building and do
repair work with them, putting them
back when the repair work is COM
pleted. Not only have the Texas
and Maine been delayed by this
practice, but also the monitors, the
Terror, the Monadnock and the Pur-
itan. All these ships ought to be
now in commission, and L have or
dered that they be pushed to COM
pletion. Precisely the same reasons
which have operated to delay the
building of ships at-navy yards nat
urally influence contractors. They
are some times tempted to neglect
government work and use part of the
force on the government ships to do
outside work as it comes in"
The secretary deprecates the prac-
tice which congress has fallen into
Of relieving ship builders of
PENALTIES INCURRED.
''The contracts" said he, "all pro-
vide penalties for failure to COM
plete work in time. Penalties for de-
lay have frequently been imposed
upon contractors by the navy de-
partment, but, unfortunately, con-
gress has in almost every instance,
when it was asked, relieved them
of these penalties. The effect of such
acts is necessarily demoralizing. 1t
is to be hoped that penalties incurred
in the future for delay will be allowed
to stand"
In conclusion, Mr.. Herbert said:
"'There is really nothing about ship
building that now renders it diff
cult in the United States. No good
reasons can be given why such ships
as authorized by congress should not
be completed with reasonable dis
patch, and 1 am simply insisting on
prompt compliance with contract OBJ
legations. We have already shown
that we can build ships and guns
equal to any in the world, and hope
our ship-builders VINO are now look
ing for contracts abroad will dem
onstrate to the world that ships can
be built, not only as well, but as
rapidly in the United States as any
where in the world"
The secretary also said that he was
pushing along the manufacture Of
ordnance and all other work in prog
ress under his direction.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-09

the same side. The currency battle
has been fought out and won in the
conventions of the Democrats Of
Maryland, Kentucky and Ohio. We
can find in these facts the cheering
assurance that the cause of sound
money viii prevail beyond a doubt
in the next national convention. This
being now demonstrated, and the
disastrous effects of allowing the
issue to become paramount and di-
vide the party being in evidence in
Kentucky, it is the part of every
Democrat who loves his party and
wishes it success to insist that this
issue be no longer permitted to
stand at the front or to be made in
any sense a test of party loyalty.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-09
sorNn MONEY SENTIMENT.

To notice the wane Of the senti-
ment in favor of the free coinage of
silver throughout the country is be
coming almost as unnecessary as to
chronicle the daily Improvement Of
business. conditions. Illustrations
are being supplied, however, by the
political gatherings which voice pub
lie sentiment in various parts of the
Union. On Thursday the Democrats
of Nebraska met in their state con-
vention. The free silver party of
the state assembled and declared
itself some time ago, under the di-
rection of Mr.. W. J. Bryan. The reg
ularity and enthusiasm Of this later
convention are emphasized by the
fact that out of a total representa-
ton of 634 delegates there were pres
ent 631. There was but one senti-
ment prevailing in the convention.
The report on resolutions which was
adopted unanimously indorsed the
national Democratic platform Of 1892
and the financial policy of this ad-
ministration. It opposed the free
coinage of silver, called for the re-
tirement Of treasury notes, and up
held the principles Of true Democ-
Tacy. The free silverites of the
South have been in the habit of cast
ing a slur upon sound money Demo-
Gratis by saying that there is not
room for two Republican parties in
this country; intending to convey
thereby the utterly false idea that
the financial policy Of sound money
Democrats is the same as that Of
leading Republicans. The proper re
tort is that there is no room in this
country for two Populist parties In
the state of Nebraska, the platform
Of the Peoples party and that of
the Bryanites are substantially
Identical.
On the same day the representa-
tives of the Democratic societies of
Pennsylvania assembled in conven-
ton at Lancaster. Unlike the
League of Republican clubs, they
did not march up the hill and then
march down again. Filled with en-
thusiasm at the encouraging pros
pect of Democracy, even in their
Republican state, since the surren-
der of the opposition to Quay, they
sounded the note of a vigorous cam
paign. They also reaffirmed the
declarations Of the national Demo-
cratic convention, especially those
In favor Of tariff reform and sound
money. They further expressed
their confidence in the wisdom and
patriotic administration of the pres
ident and of Secretary Carlisle. 1t
is to be noted once more that no
regular Democratic convention in
any state has declared this year for
the free coinage of silver by the
United States, acting alone, at the
ratio Of 16 to 1, with the single ex-
ception of Mississippi. There are not
dozen states in the Union in which
any such resolution can be adopted
at a regularly called Democratic
convention. Those in which it is
possible include a few states in the
South, and the commonwealths in
the Rocky mountain region, where
the voters of both parties are a unit
in favor of free silver simply be,
cause it would give an advantage tc
one of their local Industries. In the
great states of Ohio and Pennsyl.
vania the Democracy has just gone
On record. New York is a unit or
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-09

Either Prof. Shaw, of the state ex-
perimental farm, does not read Re
publican papers or he does not be-
lieve what the astute editors tell
their readers. While they are be-
moaning the destruction of sheep by
Democratic tariff, he is telling the
farmers that zone of the greatest
mistakes of recent years is the whole
sale sacrifice of breeding focks OF
sheep. The effects of this folly will
be felt for years to come, and men
have thoughtlessly parted company
with animals that have golden
hoofs." Had the professor taken
stock in the lamentations o. TIE cd
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-09
Day for RIuc and Grnr

NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. S-Adit.
Gen. Moorman, by order Of Gen. Nor
den, commanding United Confederate
veterans, has issued q general order
announcing that the executive COM
mittee of the cotton states and inter-
national exposition Of Atlanta has set
apart the 21st of September as blue
and gray day, and all eN-confederate
veterans are cordially invited 10 be
present in attendance on that day.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-09
MORE GOOD PARTNERS OF VICE

MORE GOOD PARTNERS OF VICE.
We had occasion to note the part
nership that exists between the
good people and the vicious ones in
commenting on the excise law Of
New York, whose vigorous and hon
est enforcement has created such
disturbance and attracted national
notice and comment. It was the good
people who wish quiet Sabbaths for
themselves and would obIige every
body else to be quiet, and those 9TH
er good people, generally Identical
with the Sabbatarians, who do not
drink intoxicants themselves and
would oblige all others to desist, that
demanded the Sunday laws and CO.
clans to get them, though the latter
were moved by no higher motive
than to get stringent law which
they could use for purposes of black
mail or party control. The former
We're simply good partners of vice.
Mr.. D. MEG. Means, in the cur
rent Forum, gives US another Illus
tratiOn Of this combination of good
ness Of intention with badness of
purpose, and shows, in his article
on Municipal Progress and the Liv-
ing Wage" how effective an impIe-
men sentine entalisln is in the hands
of crafty men, and how it is made
to serve their ends and afford them
profit. Not only is the '1aborer
worthy of his hire" but, in these
days, he is entitled to a hire that
Will give him more than a mere sub
sistence, one that will secure him
and his family the comforts of life.
There is what is termed the moral
minimum" of wages which permits
this, and it is the effort of all or
ganizations of labor to secure it, at
least. But with employers business
is business labor is a commodity
like iron or lumber, and is to be
bought at the lowest market rate
that competition among the workers
will permit. 1t is this heartlessness
of trade; the general wish that the
daily wage Of all men who work for
it might be such as to give them
comfort and enable a saving for a
rainy day, that, reinforced by their
voting strength, enables the repre-
sentatives of labor organizations to
secure from councils and legiSla-
lures ordinances and acts prescrib-
ing the rate of wages that shall be
paid in public work.
Side by side with these men with
worthy, if mistaken purposes, are
the co-operators who see in the
scheme a chance to ply their arts
and gain ends unthought of by their
good partners. These are again the
party politicians, the bosses and
managers, who fatten on contracts
and franchises that come within
| their disposition with the control of
office. Money is as necessary in par
ty politics, run on their plan, as it is
| in any business. 1t is a matter of
! conscience with such gentry never
| to furnish the money themselves and
always to make the dear public sup
ply it. If the wages of those in the
| public service can be made higher
| than that paid for similar work in
| private business, they can make it
the condition Of appointment to such
service that the extra portion shall
] be contributed to themselves, some