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The Saint Paul globe., 1897-12-05
RELATED FEUDALIsNI.

Tenure by fief is so foreign to the no
the conditions under which he lives that
there is a mild shock in the very title
'Belated Feudalism in America"-of
an article which Henry G. Chapman
contributes to the Atlantic. In win
ming independence and establishing po-
litical equality, the fathers Of the re-
public, Mr.. Chapman asserts, pulled
from under the old notion of teadal
thinking It's entire foundation, allow
ing the structure to settle down, crack
ed and warped, but still standing. In
matters of mind and morals the old
feudal idea still obtained, while in poll
the responsibility anu the protection
which were the elements of the tenure
system.
To borrow Mr.. Chapman's figure,
acter and progress has been the result
of an effort to patch up the intellectual
and ethical ruin to fit 1t for the habi-
tation of those who deliberately remov-
ed the foundation upon which it rested
With government based on the right
of every citizen to enjoy the widest in
dividual liberty, it was not to be ex-
pected that this belated feudal idea,
pervading art, letters and religion,
would go unquestioned. Nor has it.
In books the influence has in meas
ure remained supreme, and American
literature is still tried by the standards
of England; but in morals the patch
ing process has developed a system not
entirely unlike that which underlies
the political fabric. Individual liberty,
in morals as in politics, runs back in
the end to selfshness. Vices and vir-
tues are tried by standard of actual
practice. Every man is free to try any
social or moral system that commends
itself to him, and so long as he Injuries
no one but himself is allowed to go on
about as he pleases. In business, in So
ciety and in public life altruism has
lost it's place. The common people, as
Mr.. Chapman urges, have taken to
themselves the privilege, which, under
the feudal system, belonged to the no
bility, of ignoring traditions that pre-
vent independent action.
In all of this evolution from feudalism
to independence two marked results
stand out-one good: the other bad. The
bad may be considered first. Such free
dom implies the right to experiment,
and the average American has not hesi-
tated to avail himself to the full ex-
tent of this privilege. In consequence
we have too many laws, too many re-
ligions, too many social phases and
too many political cults. The good is
dependent upon the very principle that
engenders the evil. 1t is the right and
the will to experiment that promise an
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-12-05
SOCIETY AND

Now that a judge at Louisville has
decided officially that an entrance into
society is worth $500, a way is opened
for an entirely new line of judicial de-
cisions. If an entrance to society is
worth the amount set down. social
standing at once becomes an asset
and, as such, is subject to the iuris-
dlction of court of equity. Miss Nc
Flimsy to illustrate by concrete ex-
ample, in the near future will probably
be found praying that her younger sis
ter be enjoined from coming out. lest
by such act the plaintiff be deprived
OF vested rights. Mr.. Outer-Edge will
apply for mandamus directed against
the PatriarChs in case his name is
omitted from the list of those hidden
to that most select of New York's great
social functions. When Mr.. A. Is care
less in the matter of his dinner calls.
or Mrs. B. neglects her o'clock teas.
there will be applications for receiver
ships to prevent the dissipation of So
cial estates. The whole world of calls
and cards, in short, is in fair way to
find itself in such a tangle of conflict
ing orders by state and federal judges.
with masters in chancery, reorganiza-
ton committees and underwriting syn
dicates, that social law will be the most
important branch of legal practice.
Then another question comes up. So
cial standing having a fixed commercial
worth, are not those who deprive
others of such standing guilty. under
the terms of the Sherman act of 1890?
Is not a 400. after the approved lines
of Greater New York, a conspiracy to
be met by the antitrust laws? Nav
not the social leaders of the nation,
from the high priest at Gotham down
to the autocrat of the husking bee at
Wayback, be summoned before a ref
cree to show how much the social
stock is watered and to declare under
oath what are the terms of the pooling
agreement? Granted that all of these
are reasonable propositions and found
ed on good law, why not an Interstate
social commission. and then anything
you want so long as it is ridiculous? E?
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to endanger health, they ought to be
liable in damages. Where private cor
porations control the water supply and
furnish 1t to the people they exact GER
tain water rates, so fixed as to insure
them a profit on their enterprise. For
that charge they must be made to fur
nish a full equivalent. They do this
only when they have exhausted all the
resources known to science to make the
water pure. If they neglect that, be-
cause it is expensive or too much trou-
BILE, they should be just as liable in
damages as the man who leaves a tot
tering wall where it may at any mo-
ment topple over upon the passer by.
Where the water supply is controlled
by a public corporation the people
themselves are responsible. If they, as
whole, through their representatives
on the water board, do not furnish
necessary safeguards, then those indi-
viduals who receive injury are entitled
to their compensation; and only in this
way can the whole community be stir
red to the necessity of improvement
and compelled to force their agents to
protect the public health.
1t must always remain a difficult
matter to furnish proof that given
disease is the direct effect of an i'm
pure water supply. 1t can be done
often enough, however, to frighten
those who control the water service
into a duty which they would not
otherwise perform. We spend less
money and less enterprise on the pro-
lection of the public health than on any
other department of municipal work.
1t will be a good thing if liability can
be fixed and enforced which will show
every community that it's financial in
terest in security from heavy damages
comedies with it's duty toward the
whole body of it's people. .
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-12-05
HOW TO HELP THE LIBRARY.

The st. Paul Library association and
Kean, have struck the right method
and the only method by which the
trouble which they have set themselves
to right can be reached. There is no
relief for the public library, no possible
proper provision for it's needs and no
extension of it's work in the future to
be compassed except through the pro-
vision of an adequate revenue by
means of the new charter.
1t is literally true, as we have stated
before, that, if the finest library build
ing in the country were set down in
ST. Paul free of charge to it's citizens,
it's doors and windows would have to
be boarded up until some fund for its
maintenance could be provided Our
Interchangeable charter allows only
$4,000 a year for the running expenses
of the library. Only part of this sum
is ever realized. After paying the cost
of maintenance on the most modest
basis, there remains about $4,000 for
the purchase of new books. Nothing
car be done to enlarge the library fa-
cilities until more money is given.
The appropriation made by st. Paul
for library purposes is disgracefully
insufficient, both in itself and in COM
parison with the sums allotted else
where. .".-t-
The resolution Of the association ask
ing for permission to levy a half mill
tax for library purposes and setting
the minimum revenue for any year at
$4,000, is reasonable and moderate.
We hope that the charter commission
will see it's way to grant at least this
much in support of a valuable and in
dispensable aid to public education,
and clear the way for those who have
labored long, and thus far unsuccess-
fully, to secure a new building and an
enlargement of the library's excellent
collection.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-12-05
UP-To-DATE EDUCATION.

China is really serious in her en-
deavor to bring her system of education
up to date. Recently an examination
| was held for candidates for the mas
| ter's degree. 1t has been the custom
to confine the questions to the litera-
ture of China, but this method seemed
out of date and few modern problems
were injected into the ordeal. The stu
| dents, it is stated, were surprised to
| find in the list of questions this modern
and comprehensive query: What do
you know of the re-peopleing of the
earth by Noah and his family after the
| fiood?' This is an important question,
| and, in view of the controversy among
divines themselves regarding Noah,
Jonah and other characters of the Old
Testament, it may be regarded as cur
rent. With all Difference, however, both
to it's present interest and its vital i'm
portance, it must be admitted that if
China makes haste along the line indi-
Gated, the Celestial empire will be some
little time in getting abreast with real
to work up to current problems, begin
ming with Noah and coming down
through history with the man in the
iron mask and the gentleman who is
alleged to have committed an assault
on Mr. William Patterson, but it will
take time
If China wants to be up with the
times, why not plunge at once into
the problems that interest the Western
world? Almost any school boy could
frame a series Of questions that would
put the Acknowledged students in touch
with the burning controversies of the
day. These might serve as samples
for such an examination paper:
Did Mr.. Luetgert or did he not, and if not
WHY not?
Did Count Esterhazy put up the job that
sent Capt Dreyfus to jail, or did the captain
manage to get himself into trouble all by
himself?
Tell all that you can of the life and public
services of the8late politician, David Bennett
Hill
If Private Hammond had been a member
of the house, what would Mr.. Reed have
What will be the total of the Dingley def
icit before the people get a chance to solar
plexerize the bill?
What is the best make of bicycle in the
world, and upon what do you base your
opinion?
If it is wicked to prevaricate, what will be
the permanent address of Weyler after his
demise?
This list is not submitted as an en-
tirely model one, and those who favor
questions about Noah might find some
of it's features objectfonable: but if
China wants to be right even with
the worlds progress, this sort of thing
is what it must come to. s
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-12-05

of an important port, and shows every
disposition to hold it permanently as
a basis of future operations. 1t Is re-
ported that cessions of territory on the
mainland opposite Hong Kong have
been made to Great Britain as another
means of defense. These events have
led to the rumor and general belief that
an alliance exists by which France,
Germany, Russia and England will
practically divide China between them
and erase it from the map of Asia. The
dispatches say that it is understood at
Shanghai that China will propose to
refer the whole matter to the powers
for arbitration. What a revolution is
this, when the ancient and proud En-
pire Of the Sun, whose boast it has been
that the foreigner should not enter her
borders, and whose treaty relations
have been limited to the narrowest cir
Gle, is obliged to call upon the detested
alien powers to arbitrate her own fu-
ture, in order to save her from dismem-
bernent and disappearance.
1t is only the old story of the inferior
race and the lower civilization yield
ing to the higher. China has awakened
to a sense of her situation, perhaps too
late. The plans under way for the con-
struction of a complete railway system
throughout the empire constitute the
first step toward moderniZing China.
Consent to that showed that the 1mpe-
rial authorities were at last convinced
that China could not lag behind the
worlds procession, but must get into
step. She has now to feel, however,
the dangers of the middle ground. She
was secure enough in her isolation,
where the unknown added terror to her
strength. She would be secure enough,
with her immense population and great
interior resources, were the people fa-
miliar with modern ideas, and as able
to maintain themselves against aggres-
sion as they are to meet Industrial COM
petition. With the barriers broken
uOWuJ DIS lIey nave DcSI Will uSI H6lp-
lessness manifest to the world, with a
Gordon of greedy powers closing their
lines around her and with her great
area and Industrious population an
offered prey to people who are growing
every day more madly possessed with
the lust of conquest, her position is
dangerous, if not desperate. Turkey, in
her weakness, has found salvation by
the jealousy of her assailants and their
belief in the necessity of preserving her
territory intact in order to maintain
a balance of power in Europe. No such
need and no such policy is recognized
in Asia. Unless the four freebooters of
Europe find it necessary to save China,
as they have saved Turkey, to keep
from flying at one another's throats,
the time is not far distant when the
great Empire of the Sun will exist only
as a name in history.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-12-05
THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.

The charter commission seems to
have sought to find a middle ground
between those who desire the main
tenance- of the board Of public works
as it now stands and those who insist
upon it's total abolition. 1t has pro
vided, in the section adopted. for Il
president of this board TO be appointed
by the mayor and to receive a sufficient
compensation, and a number of as
sistants who, 1t is understood, will re-
ceive only very moderate salaries.
Like most compromises, this seems to
us to be altogether a mistake. 1t is
likely to work out, as compromises do,
by retaining the evil features Of both
the systems between which it sought
to steer There is a reason why the
business of the department of public
works can be best conducted by a sin
gle head. This applies to that part of
the office which is executive All that
work falls properly within the sphere of
a single officer, responsible to the chief
executive of the city and to public opin-
ion, and does not need the participa-
ton of any others whatever 1t will
be done best when free from the bal
ancing of interests and the diversity Of
motives introduces by the participation
of several persons, each of them with
an eye more or less carefully fixed upon
political advantage.
There is another part of the business
of the department which ought not to
be entrusted to a single Individual.
This relates to the assignment of dam
ages and benefits and the apportion-
ment of assessments. To place the en-
tire control Of this in the hands of one
man is to entrust him with dangerous
power. 1t seems to us that the latter
is essentially a judicial function. 1t
touches closely the rights of property,
because it can be so performed as to
work practical conhscation. 1t is. In
our belief, a work that should be turn
ed over in some way to the courts. in
stead Of being relegated to the will of
any private individuals.
AS the commission has left that sec
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-12-05
Governed by the Proposition I'm
derstOOd."
To the Editor of the Globe.

To the Editor of the Globe
1t was the presidents health that was
drunk, not that the president was drunk
Please mind your Ps and Q's better 1t is
correct to say the health was drunk" Drank
is the preterit; drunk the past participle
and the presidents health was drunk En-
passant, the present secretary Of agriculture
in his report, says: To-day no engineer or
doctor is considered fitted to pursue his pro-
fession until he has drunk deep at the fount-
aims of science" If "Tama jim" is not ac-
cepted as an authority, there is Shakespeare.
who makes Juliet say to Romeo: MY ears
have not yet drunk a hundred words. -
G o b c.
Not so fast, Endymion! Was it not wine.
or lnquor of some kind, that was drunk in
stead of the presidents health? I've heard
of people drinking queer stuff, but never be
fore heard Of McKinley's health being con-
sumed in liquid form. Mark Hanna and
others who have fattened in McKinleys
stalls, might drink to his health every time
they rrigate, but to drink Of his health Is
another proposition at least, l haven't heard
that it could be procured in the form Of
mountain dew
Undoubtedly most of those at the banquet
drank; but those who did drink presumably
drank wine; thev could not very well drink
the presidents health. even although they
might have been drunk. Strictly speaking.
all there is to it is this: They drank to the
health of the president and the wine used
in drinking to that toast was simply drunk
by those who drank 1t. 1t isn't Claimed that
those who drank were drunk. How's that,
my boy.-J. Morrison.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-12-05
ATTORNEYS HAVE A TILT.
One Said That the other Was II
ScOundreI.

Some acrimonious personalities be-
tween attorneys enlivened the proceed
ings before Judge Bum yesterday, in
the long drawn out litigation between
Attorneys Charles Butts and John 10.
Jacques. The two attorneys dissolved
partnership over year ago There Is
a dispute over the division Of the as
sets of the firm, and a receiver has been
appointed into whose hands the money
has been paid. The receiver is AttOr
ney Charles p Brown and his attorney
is Francis H. Clarke. Mr.. Butts law
yer is L. D. Barnard. but Mr.. Butts
talked a good deal in his own behalf
yesterday.
The proceeding was the hearing of al
order to show cause why Receiver
Brown should not file an account OF
his disbursements, why his fees should
rot be fixed at $50 and why he should
not be discharged as such receiver.
Mr.. Butts sought the relief prayed
for, and in seeking it, he went so far
in his attacks upon Attorney Clarke,
that the court admonished him to con-
fine himself to the record and avoid
personalities. Mr.. Butts accused Mr.,
Clarke of having first acted as attor-
ney for the defendant Mr.. Jaques, and
then acting for the receiver. Inciden-
tally Mr. Butts turned toward Mr..
Clarke and exclaimed:
You're a scoundrel."
Mr.. Clarke appealed to the court foc
protection. ard it was granted, and
Mr.. Butts was told to adhere 10 the
record. A few moments later Mr.. Butts
charged Mr.. Clarke with a grave
offense, and also attacked Receiver
Brown, accusing him of improper con-
duct as receiver, and wound up by
threatening to make motion to disbar
both from the practice of the law.
Again the court warned Mr.. Butts
against indulging in personalities. Mr..
Butts concluded that it would be wise
for him to obey the court this time.
Judge Bum took the application ur-
der advisement.
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'join the innumerab1e caravan" And
when that time comes he who has done
his best. as it was given him to do,
salutes death as did Helen Hunt jack
son in the poem written on her death
bed:
.Ah, well. good death; kind friend thou art.
l shall be free when thou art through.
Take all there is, take hand and heart,
There must be somewhere work to do.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-12-05

ultimate justification of the American
idea If the senseless tests of hope
less theories seem endless, so also is
ed not on paper, but in actual accom-
plishment. Arguments may not suffice,
but action does. What is added per-
manently to American morals or poll
tics must show that it conforms to
the rule Of the greatest good to the
greatest number. Such a process of
development Is trying. exhaustive and
perhaps wasteful, but it seems safe;
and, though slow, is sure.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-12-05
II WI, Meet a Worse One.

The effort that is being made by machine
politicians. in the face OF unquestionabie p'ia-
lie sentiment to repeal the civil service law
and to violate the law without waiting for
its repeal has met something OF a setback
Gage has ordered that the regulations of he
civil service commission shall stand and n
some particulars their application is U2Ge
more extensive than heretOfore.-Grand FORKS
Herald
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-12-05
TEMPERATURES.
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer, 1884; mean temperature, g.;
relative humidity, IA; wind at p. M, south !;
weather, cloudy; maximum temperature, l9i
minimum temperature, 1 below zero; daily
range, 20; amount of precipitation Fain and
melted snow in last twenty-four hours, o.
Note-Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. p. f. Lyons, ODsefYer.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-12-05
TODAY,S WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Forecast for Sun
day: Minnesota-Fair; warmer in eastern
portions west to northwest winds.
Wisconsin-Fair probably warmer in north
west portion; high westerly winds.
North Dakota-Fair; southwesterly winds.
South Dakota-Fair; westerly winds.
Iowa-Fair; warmer; westerly winds.
WINDS.
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-06
DRY GOODS.

NEW YORK. December AIN the dry
goods market the week closes with a good
outlook for the rest Of the year
The sales of the week shave not been al
together satisfactory. Sellers were of the
belief that the reductions in prints would
result in extensive sales, both by mail Or
der and in store buying, but buyers seem
to be inclined to take makers slowly at
present. Meanwhile. the trade in spring
goods in cotton printed lines is very fair.
In staple cottons business has continued
light during the week in all grades. and,
while there has been announced change in
prices, there have been many concessions
made in order TO secure what sales have
been reported during the week. Print
cloths show light trading, but not as light
as was expected earlier in the week. The
recent reduction in 5i-square extras to IA C
has resulted in a reduction in a renewal of
interest On the part of buyers, and sellers
have been as liberal as could be expected
at the prices.
Bradstreet's.
Business continues quiet with most at
tent;on paid to holiday goods at present.
Cotton fabrics, as a whole, meet with
slow sale with operators only buying to
cover necessities. The outlook is not par
ticulary favorable and operators look for
a general revival of business after the turn
of the year that will stimulate the market
on these goods. Mill agents maintain a
fairly steady front and expect more set
tied trade after the holidays. Printed
fabrics continue quiet with giaghams
moving slowly. Mapped go9ds and outing
cloths yet 60 well. Dress woolens are
quiet. The mills have fair orders booked
but new business is slow. The trend is
toward higher prices, in sympathy with
wool. Mems wear woolens are also quiet
and conditions are firm Some overcoat T.
ings are being oroered for next fall deIiv-
cry but suitings are quiet. Samples for
the fall of 1898 are ready, but buyers are
not disposed to take hold as yet.