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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
ONE LESSON LEARNED.

The trade reviews indicate that the
country at large has learned the les
son that 'booms," so called, are about
as dangerous things to play with as
would be jumping jacks stuffed with
dynamite. Under the influence of un-
usual conditions, in no way related to
party policies and entirely independent
or legislative enactments. the CONNER
cial cloud which has hung over the
United States has lifted and there is
everywhere promise of better things.
In days not so far in the past but that
most people remember them distinctly,
the tendency would have been to crowd
the Improvement until there was at
least the semblance of boom. Not
so in the case of the present revival.
The effort of those who have most aft
stake has been to keep the rising tide
in proper bounds. There has been no
effort to belittle the gain in business.
but the almost universal advice has
been to go slow and avoid the reckless
madness of speculation which must be
followed by inflated values, strained
credit, and, in the end a disastrous
reaction.
The most marked gain of the present
upward movement of trade is in Iegiti-
mate and not in speculative markets.
Stock securities, it is true, have scored
rapid advances; but the future has not
been discounted with the same free
dom which has been the case in for
mer rallies after periods of long de-
preston. America, in fact, has gone
very slow, and it is notable that, dur
ing a greater part of the time London
has shown more optimism in the mat
ter of railway and industrial securities
than has New York. Every buying
movement in the financial center of
America has been responded to abroad
Any timidness that may have been dis
played in Europe has been but the re-
Election of the same spirit at home.
Foreigners have full faith, apparently,
in the future of America, and are,
ready to demonstrate it when properly
encouraged.
This may seem aside from the ques-
ton, but it is in the stock markets that
booms originate. From them as a CEN
ter. the speculative spirit spreads until
it is almost universal in it's scope Peo-
pie buy beyond their ability to pay,
contract obligations which they can
meet only in case there is no reaction
and generally take leave of their COM
mercial senses. Towering trade castles
are built upon the sands, ready to top
pie with the first rains of adversely
The result, when the speculative spirit
is unchecked, is as certain as it is Sc
rious. Periods of imitation must have
an end. Safety lies in their having
no beginning This is the lesson which
it seems has been learned. The school (
ing certainly has been severe enough
to fix it thoroughly in mind. If it has
been learned, the result is some COM
pensation for the trade periIs of the
months that have passed. Booms are.
bright and sunshiny things while they
last, but they make very disagreeabge
history
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

over s29.ooo,o0O. The receipts of the
treasury from customs in the month
of September were So. 400, 900 short of
those of September 1896. Thus we
have, in year of good times" in a
year when the Republican policy has
been carried into final effect in q
month in which it's scheme for increas-
ing revenue and wiping out the deficit
nearly $3,500,000 in revenue on customs
duties, as compared with the same
month in year of universal depres-
sion, of the stagnation of business con-
sequent upon national campaign and
of Democratic free trade"
The argument could not be stronger.
The proof that it was McKinleyisln
in 1890 that was honest, and not Nc
Kinleyism in 1896, is before the ca4ln-
try. The earlier Mckinley bill pur-
ported to be what it was-"an act to
reduce revenue 1t did reduce reve-
nue. to such an extent that receipts
year of the Harrison administration by
$70,00O,000. This same policy, carried
still further in 1896, was bound to still
further reduce revenue and increase
deficits. Yet this was put forth by the
whole Republican party as revenue
breeder, and their excuse for postpon-
ing financial legislation until the new
tariff act could be put into effect was
that adequate revenue must be pro
vided for the relief of the treasury.
That adequate revenue, we see now, is
So, 400, 900 short in a single month, and
there is no reasonable prospect OF
changing the balance to the other sid2
of the account
Protection and revenue are incompat-
ible in terms. The policy of the Re-
publican party would be less repre-
hensible were it not for the hypocrisy
with which it has been accomplished.
The country was told that a special
nue. must be raised. The facts show
that revenue has been lowered far be-
yond the worst estate of the German
tariff act. The Dingley bill means the
biggest deficit in our history and, soon
er or later, the destruction of the
splendid increase in our export trade
produced by lower rates, and another
issue of bonds to protect the gold re-
serve. This is the plain showing of
the September treasury statement, i'll
Guiding an increase, in this time OF
prosperity and of high protection, of
over 100000 to the total principal
of the public debt. Such a showing as
this made during the Cleveland adj
ministration was the subject for a Re
publican howl from one end of the
country to the other. Suppose the Re-
publican editors tell us now how de.
clining revenues and mounting deficits
and debt statements happen to be the
accomplishments, of their policy and
their period of power.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

met in public session and discussed
certain fundamental problems of the
framework of the constitution; the leg
islative branch, wbhther single or BIZ
cameral; the execUti tive, whether cloth
ed with wide or marrow powers and
responsibilities; the functions the city
should assume and what remit to pri-
vate enterprise, and so on. Then, as
their work progressed and the cues
tons narrowed down, they submit GER
tain large quesGons to the public and
invite their discussion in open meetings
held in various portions of the city
There the various matters are discuss
ed fully, their merits and dement's
shown, and the public enlightened as
10 the questions upon which, later.
they are to pass Judgment at the polls.
mere we have as near an approach to
the OLA New England town meeting
rule as the conditions of our Iargs
citles' permit. There is awakened in tho
minds of the citizens a. sense of self.
rule and responsibility. and we have .
school in city government in operation.
The people are fully Informed of tho
plans proposed and have the opportu.
nifty or expressing their opinion in adj
vance of the final expression of judg-
ment. Who can doubt the value OF
such' method or it's infinite superior
1ty over the old way? Mistakes will be
made In the first creation of such con-
stltutlons, but they will be immensely
superior 10 charters, and there is an
education in it that will correct errors
ny the wisdom gained by experiences
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
WHAT THE FOUNDERS INTENDED

WHAT The FOJNDERS INIENDED.
The board of education of Minneap-
oils, hampered for funds, between the
alternatives of disseminating night
schools for the coming winter and dis
charging teachers engaged in giving
instruction in what the Tribune old
fogyishly terms 'fads," accepted the
former. Whereupon that reincarnation
of Dickens philosopher with the one
eye that revolved, searching the hori-
zon like the flash of a lighthouse, OBJ
serves that 1T must also be admitted
taught which were never intended by
the founders of our government to be
included in the curriculum of public
school education.
Thinking that we might have read
carelessly the intentions of the found
ers of our several governments, as cx-
pressed in their foundations, the fed
eral and state constitutions, we have
again gone carefully over them to as
certain what things the founders in
tended should be taught We find
absolutely nothing in either the
immortal Declaration of Independ-
ence nor in the constitution of 1857, nor
even in the amendments the watchful
Jefferson procured to be made. nor in
those added when Republicans were
/ putting up breastworks for the protec-
ton of the man and brother" that
even mentions schools, to say nothing
OF provisions for what should be taught
therein.
Turning to the Iecord left by
those later founders who framed the
constitution under which all Minneso-
tans are securely guarded in all such
rights as the legislature does not care
to deprive them of. we can find only a
general obligation laid upon the legis-
lature to establish a general and uni
form system of public schools" recit-
ing as the reason that the stability of
a republican form of government de-
ponds mainly upon the Intelligence of
the people. Section g. of article s, re-
quires the legislature to make provision
by taxation or otherwise for "a thor
ough and efficient system of public
schools in each township in the state;'
but that. falls short Of prescribing or
even advising what shall be taught.
There is a plain inference to be drawn
from the bill of rights and the amend
nent to section that the founders in
tended that nothing of a religious ma
ture should be taught; but that is pure
ly a negative matter, and we lind no
where a positive injunction or even an
| intimation of the opinion Of the found
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
TWO WAYS OF CHARTER MAKING

The departure made by Minnesota in
the old method of providing govern
ment for the municipalities of the
state, by renting to the people of the
cities the framing of their own organic
law, is bearing it's first fruits in the
work of the charter commission of Min
neapolis. 1t will be time enough to
judge of the fruit when it ripens into a
completed charter, but the occasion is
Cpportune for a comparison between
the former method of making these So
called charters and that being pursued
by the commission in our sister city
1t will be manifestIy improper to term
the rules framed by such commissions
and ratified by the voters charters
however properly that name was given
the governing acts enacted by legisla-
lures. A charter is grant of priv
Iege or power made by a superior, and
a city charter was a grant of the pow
ers enumerated made by the sou.
ereign state, without which the city
would be powerless. The laws framed
by these home-rule commissions arc
the exercise of the inherent right Of
self-government and should be termed.
municipal constitutions.
Under the former method the legf5
lative delegation of a city prepared the
charters or their amendments. They
were generally composed of few men
without special fitness for such work,
some of them without any, usually pol
iticians concerned mostly in getting
partisan advantages through the char
ter. Special interests, that find profit
in city franchises and contracts for
the various public works, were always
alert and attentive supervisors of this
work. The general public took but lit
tie interest in it because they were be-
ing governed. not governing them
selves. Later, the public growled when
they found the b1unders that cost them
dearly or the jobs came to light that
were concealed in the charter The i'm
PROJECTIONS, inseparable from work
done in this manner, necessitated pei
petual tinkering, and now and then
complete reconstruction of the charter
to be again amended and displaced.
The best of these charters had in it the
unrepublican principle of government
by a superior power instead of gov
eminent Of the people by the people.
and their construction moved on the
same line, the assumption that the
mass had nothing to say, no right to
be consulted or heard. This, of course,
was not openly declared, but the
method of work implied it.
In the work Of the Minneapolis COM
mission we see very different method
and one more in accord with demo-
cratic government. The commission
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
THE EASTERN SITUATION.

THE EASTERN SITUATION.
The Eastern question is further from
a right settlement than it has ever
BEEN The war between Greece and
Turkey, instead of being helpful, and
contributing to the ultimate arrange
ment that must be reached between
Turkey and the other powers, has
set the hands back on the dial through
the progress of several decades. The
end of it is that Turkey is more pow
erful and more arrogant than ever,
and that Greece is reduced to. a con-
dition of helplessness such as she has
scarcely known before since the days
of her ancient glory. Dissatisfied as
her people were with their status I'M
der the former order of things, they
must find the present still more intoI-
cradle. 1t is this which has caused the
deep discomfort throughout the country
at the present time, that finds it's ex-
preston in frequent changes of min
istry and Vacillation in political policy.
The instability of the Greek char
acter is, indeed, largely to blame We
have seen, within two months time,
a whole nation, apparently, rising in
arms to clamor for a war against the
oppressor of the Christian. We have
seen that people practically forcing its
sovereign and it's legislative body to
begin hostilities. We have seen it
urge forward war preparations and
drink of the intoxicating elixir of ma
tional pride and hope We have seen
it turn upon the very people
who had been endeavoring TO
carry out its will, and threat
en- to wreak upon them it's discomfort
and humiliation. The same crowds
that would have mobbed the king and
assembly if they had refused to make
war upon Turkey were ready a little
later, to mob them because they had;
and there does not seem to have been
a sober second thought as to the de-
wretched nature of the Greek govern
ment which were largely responsible
for disaster.
Again the picture in the glass chang
es. and we see this same people, con-
quered and compelled to submit to
harsh terms of peace, once more throw
inc. the blame upon their own govern
ment and acting like some beast which,
when wounded or entrapped, vents its
helpless rage by decorating its own
body. There seems to be little help
or hope for Greece until her people
recognize how far they themselves are
responsible for their misfortures. Those
misfortunes are, indeed, very great.
The terms of the treaty of peace that
has been approved by the powers are,
or ought to be, uncomfortable. The ma
tions Of Europe have done a shameful
thing. They took the side of Turkey
against Greece, on the pretense that
the map of Europe must not be dis
t,1rhed The territorial possessions of
the sultan were not to be curtailed
even by the loss of the island of Crete
q. mere speck upon the map. To
maintain this position, the guns of the
Christian nations Numbered their
bloody reproaches upon Grecian forces
assembled in a struggle for freedom.
They regretted, said the ministers of
the so-calIed Christian nations, the re-
sponsibility, but there was no other
wav TO preserve the peace of Europe
than to oppose a stern refusal to the
proposition to add to or subtract from
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
AN UNEXPECTED SPIRIT.

1t appears that, after all, there are
the stranger things in heaven and
earth and all the rest, as Hamlet
said. Who would have imagined that
the docile hobby horse, harnessed to
the harmless merry O-round, would
develop vicious tendencies and plunge
and rear? Yet it is true. An Associ-
ated Press dispatch from San Rafael
tells about it in the following words:
A novel suit has been brought by Fannie
B. Clarke. She wants S25, coo for injuries
sustained while riding hobby horse at Ell
Campo, a summer resort. The horse, which
was on a merry go-round, owned by the de-
PENDANT, became unmanageable, through the
noise OF the music. The lady was thrown
and SO badly hurt that she may be disabled
for life.
There has never been suspicion that
the gentle demeanor of the hobby horse
was only ruse to hide the fires of
CLASSY eyes and painted coat Trained
to patient endurance, the plunging
chargers have galloped about the lit
tie circle of the merry go-round with
no signs on the surface of the deSper-
ate deeds that were seething in bass
wood brains. Though all unknown, it
was only a question of time when stol-
id endurance would give way to frac-
tious vigor, and now it has come. Flu
ture care viii not mend Mrs. Clarke.
but it will protect hundreds of happy
children, who have played knight errant
on the wonderfully-c steeds
with no thought of peril But the hob
by horse should not be judged too
harshly. Merry go-round music is not
soothing, and perhaps the jangle of
the hurdy gurdy in this case would
have caused even a wooden hippograff,
with canton flannel ears, to bolt.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

pretty effectually. It is impotent as a
protection to the man whom nature has
not gifted with intelligence, and whose
wits experience has not sharpened. AS
nature ordains the survival of the At
test and the determination of the fool,
it would appear that law is impetent
to reverse her DEGREES
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03
THE oPULENT DAYS OF THE YEAR.


These are the opulent days of the
year, when Nature sits at ease, resting
from her toll, watching the garnering
of its fruits and making ready for the
sleep of winter. The year is her day:
the springtime it's morning; the mid
summer, when blossom has turned into
fruit that hastens to it's ripening it's
noon; and the autumn, when that
which has been sown and planted is
reaped and garnered, is it's afternoon.
Now is it's twilight, when the day
and contentment. In her morning she
babe the sun and the wind and the
rain make ready for her tasks, and the
sun kissed the chilled earth, and his
pulses began to throb, and the frown
he had worn all winter was smoothed
off his broad, round face, and he made
ready to deck himself out in all his
finery.
The wind came up from the South
and walked the trees and the mead
ows and babe them put their houses
in order for the song birds that were
coming. The rain came and fell soft
ly and went down into the ground into
that marvellous laboratory where ma
ture keeps her wonderful mechanism
and all her wonder-making material,
the daintiest sweets, the most gor-
1.
and all that homelier material that
gives and sustains all life. And the
sun sent his warmth down, and the two
made ready the workshop and prepared
the material for the summers work
The husbandmen went afield and SOW
ed and planted and narrowed, while
the sun shone and the winds blew and
the rain fell out of the sky, and the
birds sang and the trees shook out
their leaves and the grass came I'D and
the dandelions yellowed the pastures.
The sun and the wind and the rain
did their share of the work, the hus-
bandmen theirs, and the harvest is
over, the grain gathered, the fruit rip
ened, and Nature smiles as she rests
and looks out upon her work. for il
was good and the harvest is large And
the contented husbandman feasts his
eyes on the stacks that hold the COLDER
grain and upon the fields where tba
heavy ears Of corn bend with their
weight and hang pendant from the
stalks, and he listens to the lowing of
| the COWS as they come from the mas
ture, and the scent of the hay in tbe
NOW perfumes the air he breatbes He
tGo, smiles as he rests, for his work
was good and his harvest is large And
the good wife has gathered the fr,,;+
OF the trees and bushes and vines and
sang as she put them through all those
mysterious processes of her kitchen to
keep them good against the DAYS when
the leaves have fallen and the snow
covers the earth as her white coverlats
deck the beds in her Chambers TIL
cattle, tat with the heritage of the mas
lures lie under the trees and Ieisurai,,
chew their cuds, for they, too. have
done their part in the great DAVIS vor1,
OF the old mother of us all Let nc
Jelce and be thankful.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

Now that The United States has seen st
to move in regard to the Cuban matter, we
hope that there viii net be a single back
ward step taken.-Litchfield News-Ledger.
The only backward steps that have been
taken so far are by you uns VINO wanted Spain
and Cuba and the rest Of the world to wait
until Mckinley got in, and then fur was
going to fly, Spanish fur, Mac would make
them spaniards walk Spanish out'n Cuba in
a hLlrlN-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

A number If Miss Bessie Wilson's young
friends gave her an agreeable surprise Satur-
day evening by dropping in to spend the
evening nice time, Of course, was the
result.-Alexandria Citizen.
We should think she was surprised We
would be surprised if she had net been sur
prised And her nice time" was, doubt
less, in picking UP the young friends who
dropped in"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

ers. We are, therefore, driven to the
conclusion that this profound observa-
ton of the Tribune is but another Of
it's Bunsbyisms.
If the Jack Bunsby Of the Tribune
will turn to the first volume of Nc
Masters History of the People of the
United States he will get good deal
of needed information as to what the
founders must have intended in the de-
scription of what they provided. The
common school was kept" two months
in winter for the boys and two in sum
mer for the girls. The master boarded
round" His labors were confined to
teaching his scholars to read with a
legibly, to spell with some regard for
the rules of photography, and to know
as much of arithmetic as would enable
them to calculate the interest on a
to make change in a shop" Noah Web
ster had just published the first spell
ing book. Geography was rather
fad" When the boy left these district
schools and went to some academy or
seminary he found masters who knew
no way to impart knowledge except by
the rod To sit eight hours day on
the hardest of benches porting over
Cheever's. Accidence; to puzzle over
long words in Dilworth's speller; to
commit to memory pages of words in
Webster's American Institute; to read
long chapters in the Bible Ito learn by
heart DR.. Watts hymns for children;
to be drilled in the Assembly cate
chism & made up, with morning
and evening prayer, the life of the lads
at most of the academies and schools
of New England" Under this system
of the founders Trumbull, the artist,
spent three weeks in vain endeavor
to solve an example in long DIVISION
and Josiah Quincy went over his Ac-
cidence twenty times" We apprehend
the less the Tribune's Jack Bunsby has
to say about the intentions of the
founders of our government as to what
should be taught in the schools the bet
ter it will be for his reputation for
knowing what he is talking about
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

Times are improving in St. Paul. Thc
Globe only has couple of columns this
morning devoted t. forgeries, h0.d-ups, strong
arm work, pickpockets, lock games, ETC., and
it really looks as if prosperity at hand
for the "grafters. saltwater Gazette.
Times aren't improving 50 much as CIR
best are. After the G o e told them what
the crooks were doing the two chiefs declared
that something must be done to stop It.
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-03

A rumor is afoat that ex-President C4ege-
land would like to represent New Jersey in
the United States Senate. He would make
a model senator as that body is now cell
stituted. for there are few men who have
better opinion OF their own self-importance.-
Chatfie.d Democrat.
Among which few there fingers a suspicion
.bat fine editor of the Democrat will be emu
merated when the census is competed.