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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-26
NOT APPROVED.

The thoughtful newspapers of the
country, without regard to party, are
almost unanimously opposed to the
resolution introduced by Senator Davis.
defining the Monroe doctrine. The DO
sition which they take, and which is
logically invutnerable, is that already
assumed by the G O b e in discussing
the subject. There is no quarrel with
the point of policy supposed to
be involved. All the nation. ex-
cept few people who think
more Of sleek and ignominious peace
than they do of honor, are united in
support of the doctrine as formulated
and officially expressed by James Mon
roe. They believe, too, that when par
ticular cases arise that doctrine should
be so construed as to mean that the
United States will declare itself of
right the arbiter of any changes to be
made on the American continent in
volving the transfer of sovereignty to
any European power. That is not their
quarrel with the resolution in question.
AS a matter of fact, this resolution
which is now before the senate, in
stead of making new and wider dec
laration of American rights is so quail
flied in terms that all the life and
meaning are taken out of it. 1t is
most extraordinary thing that those
who laud it to the skies as a bold
enunciation of a new and broader
Monroe doctrine are able to defend
it only by citing the qualifying clause
which restricts it's practical operation
to "any instance as to which the Unit
ed States shall deem such attempt to
be dangerous to it's peace and safety"
This condition leaves the Monroe
doctrine exactly where it has always
been. That is to say, it announces
that we cannot regard with indiffer-
ence any changes on this continent in
volving an extension of the power of
any European government. We will not
necessarily look upon them with hostiI,
ity but we will reserve the right to
approve or disapprove them as we
deem best. There seems to be, prop
erly, little sense in paraphrasing and
charging the familiar Monroe doc
trine so as to make it appear a bold
and striking declaration, and then
lacking on this clause that only re-
serves to US the right to act as we
have always done in the past. Again,
it is worthy of notice that the Monroe
doctrine, as it now approves itself to
the American people, did not have to
wait for the resolution of Senator
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-26
GENIUS RECOGNIZED.
Large List of Patents Issued to
Northwestern Inventors.

Special to the Globe
WASHINGTON, Jan. %. - List of
patents issued this week to North
western inventors, reported by T. d.
Merwin, patent LAWYER, go, GIL and 912
Pioneer Press building, St Paul, Mimi,
and Washington. d. c.:
Frank J. Barnard J. c. Moore and J. D.
Atkinson, Seattle, Wash, magnetic extracting
Oregon, draw tar for railway cars: Peter
Brandell Council Bluffs. To-, device for dis
charging liquids; William H. Campbell Or
tonville, Mimi, fire escape; Frank L. Chap
man, Stevens Point Wis, spindle bearing for
axles; Merrick &. Childs, West Liberty, To-.
machine for providing picture mats with owl
lar or eliptical openings; John B. Cline, JEFF
1erson. To-, chromatic linking apparatus for
printing presses; Alfred f. Detwiler, Mil
waukee, Wis, stove door hinge; Hermann
g. Dittbenner. Minneapolis Mimi, engine for
log moving; William Hainsworth. West Sc
attic, Wash, rail Strengthening device; An
drew NJ. Haley, Sioux City, To-, valve for
hydraulic freight elevators, etc; Samuel w
Hurlburt, Creston, To-, steamer and cooker
William T. Jones. Woodstock To-, window
screen Frank Mattusch Muscatine To-
button making machine; Frank Mattusch
Muscatine, To-, blank cutter; Adebert Mech
am, Edinburg, n. D., sleigh brake; John c.
Mines Cedar Rapids, To-, milk ticket; Ras-
mus Peterson, Drammen, Mimi. corn har-
vester; Luella S. Pickett. Nevada, To-. at
Spokane, Wash, chuck for watch crown
Eugene S. Sutton. Snohomish, Wash, door
lock; Henry B. Weiper, Durand Wis. horse
detacher; George E. Wheeler, Minneapolis
Mimi, car brake; Edward K Jones. Port.
land, Or. design, inscription plate
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-26

Davis to find expression. If we want
to find it in its pithiest and most
powerful form. we must look for it
where we shall find summary of most
Of the political wisdom that has been
developed in the United States; that is,
in the works Of Thomas Jefferson.
When President Monroe had his fam
Gus messag sc under consideration, he
wrote to Mr.. Jefferson asking his opin-
ion about it. From Mr.. Jeffersons let
ter Of reply we take this comprehensive
expression of opinion:
We must oppose with all our means the
rorcfble interposition of any other power as
auxiliary, stpendiary or under any other form
or pretext, and, most especially, their trans
fer to any power by conquest, cesson or ac-
QUESTION in any other way.
This covers the whole ground. 1t in
cludes the Monroe doctrine as it is
found in the presidents message of
1928. 1t includes the Monroe doctrine
as explained by Secretary Olney, and
laid down in President Cleveland's mes
sage on the Venezuelan question. 1t in
cludes the Monroe doctrine as ampli-
fed in the resolution before the senate
1t covers not only the acquisition of
territory by colonization, but also by
conquest, ceSSion or any other form
OF transfer 1t has no limiting clauses
1t is what the people of this country
understand by the Monroe doctrine in
its pure and undiluted form. It ia
neither necessary nor wise for us to
hurl this in the teeth of nations that
are not aggressive. The British parlia-
ment does not pass a resolution de-
claring that it will not permit Ger
many to acquire certain territory in
South Africa, nor does the legislative
body of Germany announce to France
that 1t will never resign the conquered
provinces. Nations which have a fac
ulty for attending to their own bust
ness do not manufacture issues with
others. They wait until the necessity
arises, and then declare themselves.
so 1t is with the Monroe doctrine 1t
mas been the accepted and acknowl-
edged policy of this country for more
than three-fourthS of a century. 1t is
no more necessary for us to reafirm
1t by legislative action now than to
say that we will not permit the right
of search on the high seas The proper
policy for us is a dignified reliance
upon our MISUNDERSTOOD position,
without issuing useless challenges to
the first conner. Least of all is it wor-
thy of us to brag about what we are
prepared to insist upon, and then take
it all back by inserting a reservation
that would enable us to make a re-
treat If we should find our position
dangerous.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-26

at Constantinople, and will go to their
work not as agents of a relief asso-
citation, but az citizens of the United
States. AS such their safety is alb
solutely secure, and they are protected
against interference. Turkey has no
desire to arouse unfriendly action on
the part of this government at a time
when all Europe is watching her with
hostile eye.
1t seems assured that the Red Cross
society has actually won an important
victory, and that its operations can
now be carried on in this field of dread
full need with greater security and
success than had been expected. All
honor to the noble women who are
fastening to the relief of the victims
of the greatest crime of this CEN
turyi And it is at least a little to our
credit that if we as a government have
done nothing to put an end to it, we
may be instrumental in lessening the
sufferings of this prosecuted race.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-26
THE REID GROSS CoNauERs.

That which the fleets and armies
and governments of Europe were I'M
able to accomplish has been done by the
woman who is at the head of the great
relief organization known as the Red
Cross, and those who stand with her
tan's dominions that have been
slammed so contemptuously in the faces
of the powers of the world have been
opened to Miss Clara Barton. This is
a practical revefsaI<ef the orders issued
from Constantfnopls when the Red
Cross proposed to set out on it's mis-
sion of mercy. 1t was then declared
that the sultan could not permit any
outside association 4to operate within
his territory for the relief of his SUBJ
jects, of whom he declared that he
himself was able TO. take proper care.
The representations of our minister,
however, appear 70 have been more
effective than the menaces of Europe.
for, while the original interdict stands
eiiiii0uAiicU, IL 10 iiOW 1ilHOuuCeQ CndC
Miss Barton and her associates will be
allowed to go on with their relief work
as individuals; under the supervision
of the Turkish government, and relying
upon the protection of the power of
the United States.
This amounts, Of course, to the same
thing as reversal Sof the original or
der Neither the destitute and suf-
fering Armenians nor the people in
this country whose hands and purses
have been opened to their needs. will
know or care whether the bounties are
distributed by Miss Barton and her
helpers as agents of the Red Cross
society or as private individuals. The
effect in relieving distress will be pre-
cisely the same, but the Turkish au-
thorities save a little of their dignity
by refusing official sanction to an asso-
citation not recognized by their gov
eminent. 1t is probable that the ar
rangement made will facilitate rather
than hamper the operations of the Red
Cross agents in the Troubled provinces
of Turkey; for these people, being there
now as individuals, will be under the
immediate care of our representative
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-26
RAMSEY CoUNTY,s ExTRA

While public attention has been rivet-
ed for the last few months upon the
problem Of reducing city expenses,
the various citizens and COM
mittees who have given consid-
GRAFTON to it have passed over
the cost of conducting county Offices
That is a subject which much needs
ventilating, because 1t is there that
there is to be found a regime of ex-
travagance before which the most
munificently endowed city Office or de-
partment pales it's Intellectual fires. 1t
has been found that in order to effect
desired savings in many branches Of
municipal work, further legislation
must be had. While that is under way
the expenditures of Ramsey county
must not be forgotten. For it is there
that waste runs riot and the money
which should remain in the pockets
of the taxpayers is bestowed upon ia
Vored officials under the opera ton of
the fee system, and the system of al
lotting a gross sum for the conduct of
public office, out Of which the head
of it pays his clerks, keeping the bal
ance for himself.
An article on this subject in another
column will show to the people of St.
Paul where a good many thousand of
their hard-earned dollars go For, to
all intents and purposes, as far as the
revenues of these Offices are concerned.
Ramsey county and the city Of st.
Paul are one and the same The singu-
lar law relating to reports from these
county officials requires them to state
only gross receipts. A few were ready
with statements of expenditures and
net balance; for the rest, an estimate
has been made by the 9 Iob be. the lib
crafty of whose figures none who eX-
anime them will call III question. The
probability is that The amount remain
Ing over as net compensation is too
small; and that an administration on
the same basis as city offices, with all
fees turned into the treasury and clerks
PSeAA - Jill liiC oe1iiiC ScuI &c, WOClu SIlOW
larger balance than we have assigned
to the fortunate gentlemen who enjoy
the pecuniary distinction of serving the
people of Ramsey county. The follow
ing table gives the gross receipts of
the several county offices, together with
the net compensation received by each
Incumbent
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-26
A SURVIVAL FROM THE PALEozOIC.

The reading public which has wept
cop1ous tears over the life and death
Of good DR.. Mcclure, Of Drumtochty.
will be interested in the discovery, re-
Gently made by the editor of a prov
incial religious journal, that with all
his excellent qualities "he was not
professor of religion or even an at
tendant at church" The same editor,
reading Maclaren further, notes that
the postman who loses his life to save
a widows child was a sorry drunkard.
AS for jamie Soutar, who made the dy-
ing hours OF Lily Grant happy by the
gentle deception which he practiced
in telling her that her mistress, whose
apparent neglect has been such a grief
to her. has come to the hospital twice
day to inquire for her, he is de-
nounced as holding 1.-The very doctrine
unblushingly taught by the Jesuit
casuists, that one may lie or steal for
the greater glory of Cod
This would be very funny. if it were
not sad. 1t is not literary criticism,
and it is anything but religious COM
ment, Such curious narrow-minded-
ness is interesting to the scientist, who
studies the development of man as the
geologist studies the earth, and CLASH
f1es humanity in strata, but it is as
discouraging to the believer in prog
ress as the finding of fossil from the
Silurian walking about on the asphalt.
Such sentiments are so distinctly out of
date that it is worse than wicked. it
is bad taste, to express them in this
day and generation. Fossils are not to
be argued with-their logical processes
are different from our own--and a
knock down argument does not con-
vince the historic man who onlv
comprehends syllogism in the shape
of a club; but it may be possible that
the mind which is impervious to sweet
reasonableness in its present state of
existence will be more penetrable by
such influences in its next stage of
evolution. We have always felt sure
that a souls punishment will be fitted
to it's offense. and we would respect
fully suggest to the Angel of Judg-
ment that a hundred years in pur-
gatory spent in the enforced perusal of
the worst and weakest of fin de steele
fiction would be about the right SEN
tence for a man who could pick flaws
in the ethical attitude of Beside the
Bonnie Brier Bush
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-26

to keep step to the chk-chk-chk of the
type-bars, giving to it an orderly pro-
cession, instead of the tumultuous rush
ing when thought had to await the
slow movement Of the pencil or the
pen. And so the typewriter added an
other slice Of the territory of the pen
ell to its domains, and that part of
the boundary question is settled.
But the serious question comes when
the machine seeks to invade the region
more intimate intercourse. Is this not
the point where the line of it's incur
sions must be rfgidly drawn; where
it shall be said to it, thus far and no
farther? There is a widely different
sensation when the letter from John
or Mary comes written on the ma
chine, from that caused by the letter
from Bookmen & Co., politely regret
ting that they are obliged to decline
your interesting article. or are pre-
vented from putting your proposed
novel between covers. There is some
thing of the sensation in it of shaking
the gloved hand of John or Mary, or of
talking with them over a telephone
wire. There Is something cold and
formal about the type letters, there is
no personality in them, no Individual
ity, nothing to suggest either John or
Mary, and the letter from the machine
seems to put distance and a chill
between you and your friend or sweet
heart. Here is boundary over
which there will be a stout and pro-
longed contest. No commission can
adjust it and decide the true divisional
line. The machine is persistent and
sentiment is strong and fashion IS i'm
perious. and time only can tell whether
this last fastness of the pen will have
to surrender, or whether between it and
the machine there will come deIimita-
ton of frontiers which both will re-
spect and defend
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-26
FREE SHIPPING BILL.
Senate Committee Unanimously Re-
port AEninst 1t.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-The sub
committee on shipping of the senate
committee on commerce today decided
to report adversely the free shipping
bill providing for the admission of for
eign-build ships TO American registry
This bill had been recommended by the
secretary of the treasury and the COM
missioner of navigation. The negative
vote was unanimous, including the
three Democratic members of the com
mtttee-Messrs. German. Murphy and
White. The subcommittee authorized
favorable report upon Senator Frye's
bill to repeal the provision in the ex-
listing tonnage tax law which relieves
the vessels of other countries from
paying this tax when the governments
of the countries to which the vessels
belong similarly relieve our vessels.
1t is understood that the administra-
ton is favorable to this bill. 1t is re-
garded by some as an effort at retail
alton against Germany for her eX-
clusion of American products. Maj.
Quinn, of the engineer corps of the
army. and j. w. Bryant were given n
hearing upon the Importance of Miss
issippi river improvements.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-26
OTHER BOUNDARY QUESTIONS.

While statesmen and diplomats are
bothering their brains about questions
of boundaries between nations and how
far one nation, not in the dispute, may
go in taking part in it, other dividing
lines in another sphere are provoking
some discussion. There are invaders
besides those who come armed with
repeating rifles and Calling guns, and
who cause quite as much havoc if they
draw less blood, and disturb the So
cial and industrial organism quite as
much as do the men or war. Men and
women, too, have nowadays to he
quite as much on their guard against
these as the frontiersman ever was
against the red man whom he was
coolly and persistently dispossessing.
comes at unexpected moments TO put
things at risk, turn settled conditions
topsy-turvy and set society to read
justing its rumpled raiment
There is the wheel, for one illustra-
ton. For some generations now. men
have discarded the knee. breeches of
their great-grandsires, and paid the
penalty in the elongation of the trous-
er legs, in their inexorable bagging at
the knees and consequent frequent re-
newal. But the wheelman soon learns
at the cost of sundry tailor's repair
bills that the long trouser and the
wheel are irrecOnciIa h1e foes He Of
fers to arbitrate the matter with the
use of the spring clamp, which answers
the purpose, but offends the eye, and
some CT the holder ones have struck
out for return to knee breeches by
way of the Logging. The objective is,
however, the ''breeks' of our forbears
Then the gentler sex has found the
flowing skirt and The Ewing
wheel antagonists beyond the
Establishments of compromise, and
Either the skirt or the wheel
must go, and the odds are largely with
the wheel. Gradually, tenta tively, inch
by inch, the skirt is giving way, and
new boundary in the empire of the
dress of both sexes is in process of
readjustment
Then there is the typewriter. 1t con-
quered the business field without a
struggle. The steel pen threw down
it's arms, lowered it's point, and re-
tired to the rear at the first shot. That
portion of the boundary line of this new
invader is firmly established Then it
turned its batteries IN the occupants
of the news and literary fields, meeting
there a more stubborn resistance. 1t
found, however, in the compositors and
the business office, stout allies; while
the editors who passed judgment on
the articles submitted found their tasks
easier when the matter was put into
the legible type Of the machine than
when they had to decipher the words
as we'll as the sense of the manuscript.
AS the writer's mastered the manipula-
ton of the machine and learned to strike
the proper keys without having to look
for them, the increasd speed and the
time saved converted them Then, too.
they found some unexplainable sympa-
thy of movement between the brain
and the hands; the thought seeming
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-26
WILL DROP ARMS CASE.
Nindication of Action Taken by Mil
itary Authorities

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-J. N Nor
rison, Of the judge advocate generals
office, counsel for Henry w. Closson,
commandant at the Washington bar
racks. has notified the counsel for Mai.
Arms that on Wednesday next he will
make a motion for the execution of
the mandate of the court of appeals in
the case of Maj. Arms. In submitting
this mandate of the court to Judge
Bradley, of the district supreme court,
Mr. Morrison will announce his pur-
pose not to ask that there be any ac-
tual return by the court or it's officers
Of the body of Maj. Arms TO the actual
custody of Col. Closson. The explana-
ton of this action Of the governments
attorney in this case is that the secre-
tary of war is not inclined to proceed
against Maj. Arms unless his future
conduct should render such a step nee
essary The officers of the law depart
ment of the army regard the ac-
ton Of the court of appeals as a
complete vindication of the course of
action taken by the military authori-
ties in the premises, and probably will
allow the matter to drop altogether
unless it assumes a new and more SEQ
riouS aspect.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-26
WHAT WILL THEY Do WITH HINT

1t looks now as If one of the neateSt
bits of recent diplomacy was the trans
fer of DR.. Jameson by the authorities
of the Transvaal republic to England
for trial and for punishment Jameson
was handed over to the English govern
ment and sent back to his own country.
England is now in a great dilemma
about disposing Of him. 1t is said
that there is no tribunal before which
he can be brought. It would not be
easy to frame charge which should
cover and express the offense that he
has committed in terms of the English
law. A special commission, it is re-
ported, will be selected to investigate
his action, and it may probably go to
South Africa to gather end arrange the
any guilt that can be brought home to
Jameson, or any punishment that can
be meted out to him. AS matter of
fact, almost every man in England ap-
proves of Jameson's course If Alfred
Austin's ode on the subject exposed
him, as a poet, to the laughter of the
world, it has at least given expression
to the unbroken approval by England
Of the attempt to extend the English
territory in South Africa by force of
arms. If the Uitlanders of the Boer re-
public had risen in rebellion, as was
expected, and if under Jameson's lead
arShin thew had
eminent of the Transvaal and annexed
it to the British domain, the whole
power of England would have been ex-
ercised to prevent interference. AS it
is, he has made a failure and must
take the consequences; but England
will see to it that they are not severe.
The action Of the president of the
Transvaal, on the other hand, exhibits
pected ability in diplomacy He might
have held Jameson and brought him
to trial there. This man was the leader
of an armed host, making an indie
feasible invasion of the territory of a
friendly country. He mad forfeited ev-
cry right to protection or to immunity
from punishment. At the same time,
if the authorities of the Transvaal had
fixed upon him the consequences of his
act, nothing could have restrained
Great Britain from taking summary
vengeance. On one pretext or another
she would have held the Beers RESPONSE
BILE, and the price of their revenge
would certainly have been the ultimate
loss of their independence. AS it is,
the TransvaaPs condition is made I'M
pregnable. President Kruger has got
rid of a white elephant. He has acted
with clemency and moderation that
commands the approval Of the civil
lied world. He has strengthened him
self among his own people. He has
disarmed any resentment on the side
of England. Upon Great Britain is
now thrown the burden of dealing with
jameson according to his deserts, and
it will he found neither a light nor a
simple task.