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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06
NOT A pARTy oIrEsr1oN

1t is given out at Washington, from
dent, that he is favorably inclined to
the Nicaragua job. This is probably
another of those quiet inspirations
from the executive mansion, which
have been presented to the country
from time to time by this administra-
ton for the purpose of sounding public
opinion. 1t is the shrewd policy of Mr..
Mckinley and his chief advisers to
throw out feelers in advance Of posi-
tive action and take the beat of the
public pulse. If their suggestions are
greeted with applause, action follows.
If they are received coldly or with con-
demnation, the projected policy can be
abandoned. and no one be either wiser
or worse.
1t is rather singular that this Mica
ragua canal hint should appear just at
this time, when the president has ap-
pointed a commission, in anticipation
of whose report any action would be
trageously improper. This commits
sion was authorized because all reports
united in indicating that it would take
several times as much time and money
to construct the canal as its support
ers had claimed In view of the fact
that no Typographical survey had been
made; that nobody knew, from an en-
cheering standpoint, whether the
canal could be built at all or not; and
that, in this haze Of uncertainty any
estimate of cost must be no more than
a guess, it was thought proper, before
committing this country to the expen-
dit1re of a few hundred millions Of
dollars, to name commissioners to in
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06
HEALTHFUL QUESTIONING.

There are some things about the protection
idea that de do not fully understand, although
we try to- AS one exchange graphically puts
it: ''Want, woe and misery came with the
influx of goods from abroad" That seems
clear enough. But we are urged by the pro-
tectonists and free traders alike to push our
markets abroad Now in sending our
goods will we not be sending want woe
and misery abroad" somewhere, as the
abroad people sent it here? Or is it ali
right to produce want and woe and misery
so long as you do not suffer by it yourself?
We would like to hear from both sides on this
puzzling affair.-Cloquet Pine Knot.
Keep right on trying. Your progress
is commendab BILE and hopeful 1t is quite
likely that you will discover the cat
found things in protection that they
couldn't understand when they began
to try to understand it. Your logic is
leading you in the right direction, and,
should any of the other side essay to
solve your puzzle, we apprehend they
will only help you to clearer under
standing of what a brutal old fraud it
is. When you have gone a little far
''clear enough to you now is only an
other of the lies INDUCED in by those
who sustain the game of grab; and that
want, woe and misery" did not and
never do come with the influx of
goods from abroad" Let woe and
want and misery come from whatever
source they might, abroad is not
one Of them.
q nd To1iCnTV'' from
the lack of goods. do they not? If ev
cry one had all of them he needed,
there would be no want and none of
the woe and misery that flow from it.
But, unless one makes the goods he
needs for himself, he must get them
from others If they are given to
him. the fact of their costing him moth
ing would hardly cause him either woe
or misery, would 1T? If those fellows
abroad" should have sent those goods
here as a free gift would it have caus-
ed woe, want or misery? If they did
not send them as gifts, then they sent
them because somebody here wanted
them and was willing to buy them. If
any one wanted to buy them, do you
not think he had a natural right to
do it? Was he being hurt by it if he
got his moneys worth? Would you
think a law just that would punish
him for doing it and provide fine
GRADED to the quantity he bought,
being an average of so cents for each
dollars worth? Would you think such
q law the more just because its motive
was to compel him to buy of nelgn-
Dor who would not sell to him as cheap
ly?
If those goods were not given away
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06
many man to the spenitentiary who
never should have been sent there"


F. ]. Patterson, of Dayton, o., the vice
president of the National Cash Register COM
pany. was registered at the Ryan yesterday.
Mr.. Patterson tells of thrilling experience
he had in Ohio few days ago-staid old Ohio,
the state Of presidents.
He was travelling On the "Big Four" road,
and the train stopped at Belle Fontaine for
lunch, and most of the passengers made a
rush for the eating room. Then a crowd of
tramps appeared on the scene, as if by magic,
and captured the train, going through all
the cars and robbing the passengers who had
remained in them.
They did not take any jewelry. but cleaned
the victims out of their cash, one man losing
$50. BY this time the trainmen rallied and
the tramps were driven away, but emboid-
ened by their success they took possession Of
the railroad yards, and sharp fight ensued
between them and the police force. Law
and order prevailed, however. and six of the
tramps were captured, and a portion OF the
plumber recovered.
Mr. Patterson, with w. NJ, Canard, o. B.
Brown, r. Dickey Jr., and c.. M. Wood,
passed through St. Paul yesterday on their
way to Devils Lake, N. D.. on months
hunting trip They took along a complete
camping outfit, eleven dogs and two cooks.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06
TARRED WITH THE SAME STICK

1t is amazing TO US how readily our
Republican friends forget all the good
arguments which they used year ago
to prove to the people that legislation
could not enhance the value Of a nat
ural product and how zealously they
are now engaged in attributing to leg
islation the beneficial result of natures
laws. What they are telling the peo-
pie today is just as absurd as what
the free silver people were telling them
in the last campaign. What they told
them in defense of the sound money
idea gives the lie to what they are
telling them now in frequent discus
sions upon the beauties of the Dingley
tariff act. For example, here is the
most rampant of the lot, the Iowa
State Register, which comes to the
Dingley Tariff Did It." Of course,
what the Dingley tariff did, in the Reg
listers opinion, was to bring back pros
perity and to raise the prices of farm
products. It says that much explicit
ly. It's whole article is based upon
'tthe very plainly apparent fact that
the Dingley tariff is entitled to the
main credit for the higher prices for
grain and meats.
Now, the man who can say that is
not entitled to throw stones at Mr..
Teller or Mr.. PETER or Mr.. Bryan or
Mr.. CoXey. He is as absurd a fiatist
as the worst of them. There is GER
tainly no more absurdity in declaring
that an act of congress can raise the
price of silver from 60 cents to S129
per ounce than there is in asserting
that the same agency can raise the
price of wheat from 60 cents to 81 per
bushel. That the Dingley law prom
ised capitalists to raise the prices of
certain commodities by forbidding the
foreign article to be brought into the
country on equal terms is true. This
is not a denial of the law of supply
ly restricts supply by barring out the
foreign product; and, demand remain
ing constant with the supply dimin-
ished, prices must rise. In the case of
agricultural products, Of grain and
meats, of which we produce a surplus,
and whose prices are, therefore, fixed
in the worlds markets, this rule can
not possibly apply. The Dingley tariff
Of Lo, d.
upon such prices, not half as much eff
feet, in fact, as a free coinage law
would have upon the price of silver.
The causes of the recent advance
in the produce market are world
wide and understood by all men,
We do not expect of the lesser fry
of the partisan press, like the Iowa
State Register, anything other than a
claim for the whole benefit for their
party. They would say exactly the
same thing if the cholera had prevail
ed in the United States in 1895 and dis
appeared in 1897 1t would, in their
view, be credited entirely to the virtues
of the Mckinley administration and
of the protective tariff. 1t seems to us
that they do pass the bounds of de-
cency, as well as of common sense. and
that they invite future danger to them
selves when they are willing to rest
their cause upon an argument that, if
admitted, makes it forever impossible
to deny the fundamental proposition of
those who contend that an act of con-
gress can restore silver to a parity with
gold at the ratio of 16 to 1.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

We need not discuss the reason for it. but
it is noticeable fact that every thing seems
to run better for the masses when the Re
publicaps are in control of affairs.-Austln
Transcript.
Between the cant and sniffie of this and the
blunt bald assertion that everything good
is due to McKinleyism, we prefer the latter.
1t has, at least, the manly virtue of courage
and it is no more devoid of truth.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

But when it was discovered that Minnesota
didn't want section %, as it wasn't conducive
to our interests. and that he was getting
numerous severe roasts. he came out and ad-
mitted that he had nothing to do with draw
ing OF inserting the section 1t didn't make
him as popular as he anticipated and he
dropped Gazette.
The Gazette has "got onto the curves of
the First district statesman with ease
that indicates an intimate acquaintance. If
that Chicago paper that hailed him as the
interliner and accompanied its write-up with
two-column portrait of him would give
up the source of it's inspiration, that denial
might suffer a'sheavy cut.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

1t is safe to calculate that with an era of
rising prices, which now appears to be ahead
of us, the cost of living will be increased
in many ways; but if this increase is accom-
panied by increased average earning power
and more general employment the people will
be net gainers.-Minneapolis Tribune.
Still that eternal unavoidable, omnipres-
ent ''if.' Is not the Dingey act at work?
Was it not to increase earning power" as
not ''more general employment" but work
for every one willing to work? Then why
this note of hesitancy and doubt?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

vestigate and report. This being the
situation, it would seem to negative
any further action for the present. Still,
the time for the assembling of con-
gress approaches, and the message of
the president, must be constructed in
advance. We can imagine that Mr..
Mckinley waap.d like to know how the
people feel a5soutfahe Nicaragua canal,
and can understafad the deprecatory as
surance of the "officiar' who speaks Tor
him. that this is not a party ques-
tion'' g Is
It certainly, is not. It is, SO far, pure
ly questioned Doodle. We do not say
that a canal .acr6ss Nicaragua Cal Lot
be built, and we do not say that it
might not he made to appear proper
and even desirable for the United
States to undertake it. We do say that,
in all the years when this project has
been before the country, no move in
that direction has been made. The
Nicaragua canal project, as it has been
presented to congress and to the coun-
try, is scheme of plumber pure and
simple. 1t has no commercial side. It
has been based upon a lot of specula-
lions made of moonshine, and its sole
objective point was to secure the guar
antee by the United States of 100000
600 of the bonds of a private corpora
ton. The canal itself was thrust into
the background. >. It's only use was as
basis for an appeal to public imagi-
nation and national feeling; but, prac-
tically, it was the stuff that its pro-
motors were out for There is no other
side to the project for the present, and
there can be none until we learn from
competent engineering authority
whether the work can be done or not,
and what it will cost, and until we have
ASSOCIATED it utterly and forever
from the idea of lending the credit Of
the government to a private enterprise.
When that shall have been done and
the scheme put upon a BUSINESS foun-
dalton, it will be, mot a question of
party indeed, but of proper public
policy. AS matters now stand, it is
mot question of party" indeed, but
only of outright contemplated robbery.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

Four pounds of sugar in every dollar
worth purchased is a pretty heavy contrbu-
ton the people are making to the sugar
trust and the foreign wheat famine will not
cause them to forget it.-Fairmont Sentinel.
True enough; but that is the only kind of
prosperity that can ever be made by legis-
lation. You are beginning to see the cat,
but you cannot yet see the whole critter.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

And this is the kind of man the G o b e
helped to elect president.-St. Cloud Times.
Discussion that cannot be anything but
dispute is proftless You will always be
welded to your notion, while we will be
equally firm in the conviction that he owes
his election to those Democrats who went
rainbow chasing with the Pops. Meanwhile
let us suggest that it is a condition, not a
reminiscence, that confronts us.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

It would also pay the G o b e Josh
editor" to read the Alexandria Post-News OF
last week carefully and rayerfully.-Warren
Register.
We read it carefully and prayerfully; care
fully to see if Mitchell was in earnest, and
prayerfully that he might be delivered from
his folly.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06
THE BIG WEEK OPENS.

THE BIG WEEK OPENS.
With this morning there opens big
big week for the State Agricultural
association and a big week for the
whole Northwest. The great state fair
will be in full swing for the next six
than ever before, The extension of in
terest as we'll as the amplification and
improvement of industry are evidenced
by the increased list of entries in all
departments. The Northwest, and Min
nesota in particular, has been grow
ing steadily through the years when
general depression made an appear
ance of stagnation. We have been get
ting our lands under better cultiva-
ton. We have been studying our mar
kets. We have been advancing real
agriculture by diversification of crops
and by a,betteri adaptation of product
to soil We have beehN giving more at
tention to new IND Industries, and dairying
and cattle raising have been making
great progress. We have been learn
ing the value of improving the breed
of cattle, and finding prosperity in
ways hitherto neglected. Now comes
an era of high prices that encourages
everybody, and makes people willing
to gather together for exhibition the
results of patient industry and of the
advancement that is frequently more
real in hard times than when specula-
ton is rampant.
All of these facts will be in evidence
on the state fair grounds this week
There is not a department of the vast
exhibition that will not prove it's adj
vance over all previous fairs. In farm
products, in farm machinery, in horses
and cattle and sheep and hogs, in the
development of field and forest and
mine, we will be able 10 show to all
corners how rapidly Minnesota is push
ing to the front. And, interspersed
with these practical lessons, of meal
culable value to every visitor, there
will be the enjoyment of the track
events that have been provided in al
most bewildering variety. A visit to
the fair this year will be a treat worth
while to enjoy; and the better times for
the farmer and the liberal arrange
ments made with the railroad COM
panies put this within the reach of all.
For the evenings, too, there are ready
programmes of entertainment that fill
the public with anticipation. The two
cities will put on festal attire and vie
with each other in amusing their visit
ors. In st. Paul there will be some
thing every night to turn the streets
into living panoramas of beauty and
festivity and to vary the instructive
lessons of the day with the lighter vein
that must run through every healthful
life To all our friends we extend the
glad and welcome hand and invite
them to share with US the joys of a
week of carnival. The gates of st.
Paul are open Hospitality, and within
our borders, both on the magnificent
grounds at Hamline and in our bust
ness streets, we hope to see thousands
of happy faces from every part of the
Northwest. The fair and the carnival
are ready, and it will not be our fault
if our visitors do not leave US with
enough new and vivid impressions and
pleasant recoIlections to store their
memories with a fund of pleasure to
last them through the year to come.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

1t is a source of some surprise that those
Republican newspapers which pointing
out the coincidence" of higher wheat prices
and the incoming of a Republican admins
tration have not yet coupled the Klondike
gold discoveries with the return of Republic
eanism to power.-Wheelock's Weekly.
1t is only because they have not got around
to that yet Give them time and they will
get there.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06
ronAY,s WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-Forecast for Mon
day: Minnesota-Fair; warmer IN northern
portion; seutheasterly winds.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY fair; light to fresh
southerly winds.
The Enthusiastically fair; variable winds.
Iowa-Fair; southerly winds.
Montana-tair; northwest to west winds.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
United States Department of Agriculture,
Weather Bureau Washington, Sept. ., Gas
D. M Local Time, 8 p. m. 18th Meridian
me-Observations taken at the same mo-
ment of time at all stations.
TEMPERATURES
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

There has been so little said about the
sugar beet experiment in this section that
the Reporter would like to have report
from farmers, who have some planted, upon
the cereal.-Belle PLANE Reporter.
Upon the vegetable, my son. Keller Is
the only serial involved in the experiment,
and he is perennial.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

The Republican prices for wheat this year
&C comnared with the Democratic prices of
year ago. are very gratifying all around
Benson Times.
But to none so gratifying as the chump
who thinks that wheat prices ever either
democratic" or Republican.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06
Rermuaa.s Governor in New York.

NEW YORK. Sept. 5.-Lieut. Gen. G. Dig
bv Barker governor OF Bermuda, arrived to-
day on the steamship Orinoco, accompanied by
his aide-de-camp, Capt. Platt. Gen. Barker
and wife intend to make a tour of the United
States and Canada.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

The man who gets the Republican nomina-
tion for governor next year will have to do
great deal of stomach crawling.-Anoka
Union.
And the fellows who do not get it will do
the stomach-achfng: :;
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06
striking cloaiSnnkers Give Up.

NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-over 1900 union
cloakmakers returned to work today, and
800 struck The -vestmakers expect to be at
work by Thursday at increased wages.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06
TEMPERATURES
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer, 1898; mean temperature So;
relative humidity 76; wind at p. M, south
east weather, clear; maximum temperature,
80; minimum temperature, 20; daily range,
20; amount of precipitation in last twenty
four hours, .27.
RIVER AT 6 A NJ
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, 1897-04-01
A LESSON IN ECONOMICS.
Again it is a Washington girl.

Again II Is a washington girl.
mis- time she appears as an angel Of
economy TO a young man who needs that
kind OF angelic administration about as
much as any o.her young man in the
capital city, and she is just as SUCCESS
tui AS if she were trampling him under
her scornful heel and making him feel
how utterly helpless man is in a conflict
with the Irresistible.
BY Joye.'' he was saying. this sort
OF thing is simply iutolerable.
What sort Of thing?" she inquired,
with admirable poise.
Why | have just had to pay u mes
senger 40 cents to deliver a note up
town for me. and he was gone less than
half an hour. IL would be cheaper to
have hired Z cab and horse and driver,
and still cheaper to have sent it by mail
under a special delivery stamp"
What was the note?" she asked, man.
like, before she thought.
"A response tc an Invitation 10 din
ner."
Forty cents is cheap for a good din
ner, she smiled.
But | couldn't 60" he walled. 1T was
a declination, and the 40 cents on top
Of that. Really. though. this messen-
ger service is a rank imposition and
should not be tolerated. Twenty-Five
cents an hour is ample, with short dis
tances at 10 o 10 cents. The convent
ence is easily worth that, but more than
that is plain extort.ion and the greed of
monopolies."
You talk like a populist," she re-
sponded, and you have my sympathy.
You are the more entitled to it, because
you don't seem 10 know any better. Now,
why aren't you as bright as a man |
know who hasn't any more money than
you have? When he has a note or q
book to send a girl he doesn't waste 40
cents on a grinding monopoly-oh, that's
what it is" she laughed as she noted his
lock OF surprise-"we have a call in our
house, and | am compelled to use it
sometimes-but he does a much better
thing. He just adds 10 cents to his 40,
slips around to the florists, orders so
cents worth Of violets sent to the girl,
puts the note in with the flowers, and
there you are. See? Only IL cor;s out,
and think how much in-for girls do
love flowers, even so cents worth"
The young man began gasping for air.
Or" she went right on, "if 1t is the
season when flowers are more expensive
than messenger service, just substitute
candy for flowers. You can get m
thing perfectly lovely for 60 cents, and
to add a book Or pleasant note to it
makes it well worth the girls kindest
thought, and your 20 cents extra. Now,
is the plan clear to your stupid brain? ?"
Whether it was or not, the young wo-
that very afternoon received a de-
lightful note Of thanks for valuable in
formation, accompanied by a 5O-cent
bunch OF violets from a well-known for
ist.-Washington Star.
, 1897-04-01
PLUCKY WOMEN.


An attempt was made by an unknown
person Thursday morning at 2 o'clock
to unlawfully enter the residence OF Mrs.
Frank W. Cooley, near the Methodist
church in this city. Mr.. Cooley is work.
ing in Billings and Mrs. Cooley and the
children were alone in the house. This
fact was probably known to the maraud-
er. Mrs. Cooley was awakened by n
noise at the door as if someone was
working on the lock. She became scared
but raised an upstairs window and ask
ed who was there. No answer was re-
turned and as no person was visible she
naturally supposed the man had fled. In
about half an hour the noise was resum-
ed and the now Thoroughly frightened
cried loudly for help. Mrs.
Dewey and Mrs. Holloway, two neigh
bors, appeared at their windows in re-
Spouse to the cry. The latter lady pluck
lily commenced shooting at the burglar,
who fled into Rev. Stewart's coal shed
and afterwards made good his escape.
One shot went very close to the brute, as
it lodged in the door casing near which
the nan wal standing, and it is a pity
that it did not find its intended mark
Sheridan ENTERPRISE.