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EUROPE'S OUTLOOK.

Public attention has been SO far ab-
sorbed by the rapid movement Of
events in the farAEast that the politi-
cal possibilities OF the New Year In
Europe have been neglected. The ORR
ent possesses spectacular interest. and
yet it is not impossible that the really
important political dramas Of the wear
may be enacted upon stages which ara
now dark. The outcome in China 10
one that cannot be foreseen, SO co,,,nIi-
Gated is the situation by avarice. real
ousy and prejudice; but war over the
spollatlon of China, or even the parti-
ton of the empire. can hardly be set
down as an impending peril, while at
London, Madrid, Vienna and RerI,n
stages are being set for what NAV
prove tragedies, with small chance of
the comedy element prevailing.
In Austria the situation is most
acute. The causes which led to the wild
tumult in the reichsrath did not pass
out Of existence with the adjournment
OF the lower house, and the best states
manship Of the empire will be taxed
to reconcile the conflicting interests of
the component states. DynastIc
changes have been limited at, but even
In the extreme event Of independent
government Tor Hungary it does not
appear that the crown Of Franz To-
seph will be in danger. More possible
and even probable is a angarnent
or governmental functions and lines of
boundary. In this last lies the greatest
danger. Once map making begins in
europe, 1t a matter Of history that no
one can tell just when the rulers and
pencils will be laid aside.
In Spain and Greece the possibilities
OF the year are largely dynastic 1t is
no secret that the throne of the bow
king Of Spain may be toppled over at
any moment. With Cuban complica-
tons on the one hand and Carlist agi-
tation on the other, his majestys sup
porters must look forward to the com
ing year with anxious eyes In Greece.
too' the rule Of King George is any
thing but firmly established. The
events of the disastrous war are too
recent in memory to permit of errors
in policy going unchallenged. The
status at Athens is, perhaps less seri-
Gus than 1t was year ago. but the
tenure Of the king Is still uncertain and
Greece cannot be ignored when the DOS
sibilities Of 1898 are In review.
Germany and England confront prob
lens of progress rather than of peril.
With the reassembling of the reichstag
at Berlin. the naval programme of his
majesty being nominally at issue. the
question Of the right Of the people to a
dominant voice in the government will
be the real matter at stake. Indica-
tons are that the naval programme
will be rejected and the reichstag sent
home in disgrace Beyond that the fu-
ture is uncertain. With the people in
accord, new representatives may again
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WHY NOT A SLICE OF CHINA.

Looking at the situation that is de-
veloping so rapidly in the land of the
Celestials from the point Of view taken
by this administration and its party Of
the policy to be hereafter pursued by
this country, to which the annexation
comprehend its lukewarmness in this
partition of China among the powers.
We read with some surprise the semi
official encouragement that the matter
was not even considered at a recent
cabinet meeting and that the impress
sion prevails in Washington that the
administration lis indifferent to the do
fngs Of Russia and Germany in China,
and to what England or France might
do. It seems to us that the logic of
Hawaii demands the annexation Of a
slice Of China. I'VE fail to see how any
argument put Forth for the appropria-
ton Of the islands Is not equally forci-
BILE for the sequestration of fat chunk
of the land Of the Acknowledged.
If Hawaii Is needed as a strategic
point, an outwork Of national defense,
why is not position on the farther
continent also necessary? IF we need a
midway coaling station for our steam
ships and warships, why do we not also
as much need one on the main land?
If our battleships In the Pacific will
be unserviceable because their coal
bunkers will be exhausted unless re-
plenished at Honolulu, will they not
then be emptied before they reach
China or Japan? Must they not then
have station at, say Shanghai, where
they can refill with coal? Suppose that
that war with japan, that is accepted
by the annexers as a certainty of the
future, bursts upon u.s. Of what avail
would be a coaling station two thou
sand miles from our shores for our
steel-clads in their operations against
an enemy three thousand miles still
farther on? If we must take Hawaii
because our missionaries have been do
ing work there, why is not the similar
work done by the same people in China
as good reason for taking a share of
that country? 81
Then there is thatEether stock argu-
ment upon which the annexationists
retire when driven from every other
point, the assertion that, if we do not
take Hawaii, England or Germany or
France or some other country, posi-
bly, Japan, will take ii. True, England
and France In turn have taken it and
let 1t go again, but that was when the
cannibalistic appetites of its natives
made occupation hazardous. Now it is
a rich jewel for. which all their fingers
are itching. Well, grant the suf1iciency
of this argument. and wherein does it
not apply to China? Nay, does it not
apply to that country with all the force
that there is between fact and predic-
ton, event and prophecy? Has not
Germany now actually taken Kiao-
Chou and established boundary of
'inf1uence?" Has not the Russian bear
got Port Arthur and Manchuria in its
paws? Does not Japan still hold Wei
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thwart Williams dream Of dominion
divinity Of the kaiser will never again
seem so great thing as it has been in
the past. In Germany, as In all the
world, the people have the power to
rule, and 1t rests only with them to dis
cover the fact. That discovery is the
great possibility for Germany during
the coming year. In England problems
Of colonial policy, a juster form Of gov
eminent for Ireland and military and
naval extension will come before par
government never too strong and
now weakened by popular crit
icism and united opposition. A
development of minor Importance
in itself would serve to un-
seat Salisbury and place another in
control Of the government Of England
This cannot be set down as an event
uality to be expected, but as something
which may easily happen
SO, while the diplomats Of the world
turn their eyes to the East and the
capitals Of Europe TEEN with plots and
counterplots, any day may serve to rel
egate the Chinese question and bring
another to the front. With all the stir
and hustle in the Orient, it Is more
than probable that the permanently
important history Of 1898, leaving
America out Of the question, will be
made not in the East, but in the pop
ular assemblies Of Europe.
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give low-priced product and low
wages give a high-priced product, the
demonstration Of which, with all the
patient gathering Of minute evidence
OF the statistician, he makes in his
Economy Of High Wages" Golu-
chowski calls on Europe to unite In de-
Tense against the products of the shops
and the farms Of the United States be-
cause they can be sold in Europe at
prices against which their manufactur-
ers and farmers cannot compete, and
the manufacturers and farmers of the
United States cry for barriers against
the products Of Europe for the same
reason. And Europe has the lowest
wage rate of all civilized and produce
tive countries and the United States
have the highest. An ounce Of fact Is
worth ton Of conjecture. The two
claims antagonize and neutralize each
other. Either Goluchowski is right or
he Is wrong. If he Is right our protec-
ttonists are wrong. That he is right
our exports Of all our products, those
Of the shops and mills as we'll as of the
farms, for sale in Europe, handicapped
by the imposts they meet there, conclu-
sively demonstrate. While crying that
they cannot compete on their own
grounds, our whole line Of industries
is proving that they can compete in
the very markets against whose prod
ucts they aver they cannot stand.
Our cotton planters produce the fiber
and supply the spindles of Europe
against the cotton produced by the Ia
Dor Of the fellaheen Of Egypt and the
ryot Of India, whose wages are a few
cents day. Our spinners make cot
tons and sell them to India and Japan
in successful competition with the SPIN
ners Of England, who pay one-fourth
less than do our spinners. Our farm
ers raise wheat and corn, beef and pork
and the surplus is sold in Europe. bur-
dened with imposts, with its similar
products produced by labor that is paid
less than half the wages paid on our
farms. Our millers grind the wheat
into flour and our packers preserve
the meats and sell them in Europe's
markets against the flour and meats
made with labor costing half theirs
Our iron and steel mongers sell iron
and steel in all the markets of the
world against iron and steel made by
labor costing from fourth to a half
what theirs cost. SO we might go down
the long line of our exports, from those
the crudest to the most highly finished,
and everywhere we find the conclusive
proof Of Schoenhofs paradox, the su-
periority Of high-wage over Iow-wage
products in cheapness of production. It
is not creditable to our intelligence as
a nation, as it never was to our manIi-
ness, that the naticn cannot sense
these facts and apply to its external
affairs their logic, the only conclusion
Of which is the utter needlessness of
protection against the products of low
Waged labor.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-02
DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF 1907
WEATHER CONDITIONS LOCAL
LY WAS EXCESS OF MOISTURE.
AUTUMN UNUSUALLY WARM,
ALTHOUGH THE MEAN TENPERA.
IURE FOR THE YEAR WAS
PRACTICALLY NORMAL.
RIVER WAS SWOLLEN IN APRIL.
hu' Has subsidized Now to Very
Low Stage, as Usual at This
Season.

Local Observer Lyons, Of the wealth
er bureau, in his summary of tbe
weather conditions of 1897, saws: The
record of the United States weather bu-
reau station at this place show nothing
remarkable in weather for the wear
1891 except q more than usual amount
OF precipitation; volume Of water In
the Mississippi river in excess of that
Oh any other year since 1881, and an un-
usually warm autumn, with abnormal
conditions of heat and sunshine I'm +ba
month Of September.
The average annual Temperature for
81 Paul and ylnclnity IS 49.5 degreez,
the year in question averaged 4S.7: so
II was practically an average one as to
neat; the extremes Of temperature were
moderate; the highest and lowest reg
Btered being "a above and % below
zero, the dates being July and Ian.
26' respectively; the temperature went
above so degrees on six days; it fell be-
low freezing point (32 degreeg) ON 1877
days, and there were 90 days that II re-
manned below that point at all times.
both day and night.
The normal precipitation IS 217
inches; the fall during the year In
question, 1892 inches, giving an excess
or 800 inches; rain or melted snow
amounting to One-hundredth Of an IncT1
or more Of water fell on forty-flve
days; the total snowfall, if unmelted
would be 68.4 inches In depth; there
were 105 clear, III partly cloudy and
LAB cloudy days,5 foggy ones and 2 on
which light hail fell; there were 81
thunder storms, Of which April and
May each had 2, June and July each
had 9, August 6 and September and Oc-
tober each; there were no manifesto
lions of electrical activity observed in
any other way; no auroras were seen,
The wind blew oftener from north
west than from any other point; total
movement in miles (all directions con-
sidere0 was 66,210 the wind did not
attain dangerous velocity at any
time, the highest was 40 miles from
the northwest registered from five
minute records in April and June.
The last killing frost Of spring &C.
CURED April 80 and the first Of that
kind came Oct. 8; light frost occurred
before that, but there was a stretch Of
more than five months that the tenn
perature was not adverse to the growth
of vegetation; all products Of farm and
garden in this vicinity had matured
long before the killing frost Of autumn.
The highest and lowest river gauge
reading was 1870 and 2.3 feet, registered
April and Nov. q respectively; the
registration 1870 feet has been equaled
once and exceeded once since the es-
tablishment Of the river gauge at st.
Paul in 1872
The barometer readings for the year
show a mean Of 30032, the highest be-
ing 30.72 and the lowest 1890 The
temperature table is given as follows:
Month High DATE Low Date Mean
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-02
A MODEL RECEIVER.

The general impression is that a re-
ceiver is for the purpose of using I'D
all the assets Of the estate If possible:
If that cannot be done then to diminish
them as far as possible. The other
day Minneapolis receiver justified
this impression by reporting that he
had succeeded in using up all the as
sets In expenses, salaries and attor
ney's fees and asked for discharge be.
cause the estate could not be carried
on further unless the creditors were
assessed. He was discharged with the
unanimous assent of the creditors. Now
and then the commercial world is as
founded by exceptions to this too prev
alent rule when some receiver &C
tuaily declares a dividend but he is
'charitably set down by his fellow
craftsmen as a "sawney," who does
not understand his business
There is evidently another idea prev
alent across the seas. We have two
striking illustrations. The premonito-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-02
THEY BUT CHEAr THEMsELYEs.

THEY BUT CHEAT THEMSELVES.
Moshik, condemned to die, beguiles
the hours of his monotony, and tends
off imaginings Of what there will be
for him in the beyond, with solitaire.
To his jailer he said, throwing down
the cards: 81 have tried for a week
to win this game Of solitaire, and I
can't get it without cheating, and there
is no use cheating ones SELF Better
for him he had learned this sooner
Better for him had it been the first
lesson taught him. Some. day soon
he will die pendant from a rope be-
is no use cheating ones self" Perhaps
his dull mind could not take in the wild
er meaning Of his thought; perhaps he
did not realize that in nothing in life
is there use or gain in cheating ones
self. Perhaps he thought it was only
in the games one plays with ones self
ness.
And there are other Moshiks who
have not learned this simple, plain les
son; some in, some out of JAIL those In
because they have been cheating them
selves; those out who think they are
only cheating others instead Of them
selves. Who do cheat themselves?
They are legion. In the schools they
are the pupils who ride through their
recitations on ponies" who copy So
lutions from other pupils instead Of
working them out themselves; who de-
ceive their teachers to think they are
studious when they are shamming
study; whose aim it is to get through,
indifferent to the means or methods.
In the shops they are the men and
women who gauge their labor by their
wage and try to give less Of the for
fner than the latter measures; who care
only to get through the task needless
Of how we'll or i'll the work is done. In
the offices the managers who think the
laborer is not worthy Of his hire and
would get from him the most he can
give and give to him the least possible;
who think it square deal to get laws
passed that will let them make those
who buy their wares pay more for them
than they can get them for from 9TH
ers beyond the reach Of the law.
Going farther afeld we find Moshiks
who have not learned how useless Is
this cheat Of self in the government, in
the legislatures, in the courts, in the
law offices and doctors chambers: lots
of them in politics. men who are trying
to get something for nothing and do
not know that they only cheat them
selves who do not give fair measure
for everything they get. They are COM
municants in churches and sometimes
In the pulpit, who serve God with their
lips and the devil with their acts and
think it will be we'll with their souls
when the final great reckoning is made.
Every man who lives plays a game of
solitaire with his soul. He cheats him
seR only whenever he is untrue to the
best in him; whenever he does not put
his best into his work; when he COM
promises with right and Charters with
wrong; when he takes that which he
has not earned: when he casts the
burdens he should bear onto other
shoulders; when he leaves duty undona
or half done: Sorriest of all cheats are
these, for they futilely cheat them
selves.
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CONFIRMS scHoENHoEs PARADOX.

SOIsU AIHHsS n.
''The battle cry" sent out to indus
trial Europe by Austria's minister for
foreign affairs, met with a second from
Bavon Won Thielmann, secretary Of the
German treasury, in his speech pre-
senting the budget to the reichstag.
The United States were trying to play
the part Of the pike IN the carp pond,
he said, and it is necessary for the carp
to COMBINE forces against the common
enemy. France acts while the others
talk and raises her tariff against our
exports. The United States, deluded
with projections wage theory Of low
wages, raises barriers against low wage
products in an imaginary need of self
defense, and Europe gets ready to pro-
tect itself against high-wage products
Of the United States. Here the cry is,
we cannot compete against Europe's
''pauper" labor; there the cry is,we can
not compete against American products
produced by the worlds highest wage
rate.
Here we have, in both of these
alarms, incontestible evidence of the
correctness of the apparent paradox
stated by Schoenhof, that high wages
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-02
ATTORNEY GENERAL Is HOME
After a Week Spent in Wadena's
Murder Trial

Attorney General Childs returned yesterday
from Wadena, where he participated in the
prosecution Of Mrs. Plkkarinen and Alex Lin
dross for the murder Of the formers hus-
band. The jury acquitted the woman but the
self-confessed accomplish. who blamed her for
the crime, pleaded guilty to the charge of
murder in the second degree, and was at once
sentenced to spend the remainder OF his days
in the state prison.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-02
THIRD WARD WANTS A PLACE
On the Office STAFF of the building
INSPECTOR.

meeting of the Third ward committeeman
will be held in the Krahmer block Seventh
and Sibley streets, Monday evening The
nesting will take some action to see II they
cannot get Third ward man one OF the ap-
pointments in the building inspectors office.
The Third ward Republicans feel that 1t Is
about time for something to drop on their
side OF the fence, as they have received moth
ing at the hands Of the administration, with
the exception of couple OF places on the
police force
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-02

ry wave that indicated the coming
of the flood that swept our Industries
into disaster in 1893 was the failure
Of the Barring Bros, in 1890. The tide
abroad was stayed by the announce
ment that the Bank of England had I'M
dertaken the liquidation Of the estate.
with It's s10O. 900 Of liabilities and its
assets that could be made to pay all
the debt by prudent handling, but. If
rushed on the market, would pay but
small percentage. The news came
over the cable the other day that the
bank had full filled. its trust and paid
the debts fully out Iof the assets. Some
of our own cpmpanies. infused
with our local idea of the functions
Of receiverships, might take lesson
from the conduct 1f the Barring Bros
estate that. # applied, would rebound
to the benefit Of their cestuis que trust.
In another direction England has
shown how Bankrupt estates can and
should be managed. Never mind the
steps by which England and France
undertook a protectorate of Egypt, nor
how England euchred France out Of
all share in the management of an es-
tate brought to utter bankruptcy by
Khedive Ismail. It has no bearings on
les are another matter, and something
can be said for England on that side.
If needed. Ismail had large Ideas.
These could not be carried out without
money and he became generous bor-
rover. Englishmen held $275. 100000 Of
his bonds, and there are others"
holding some s225. 100000 more. When
the occupation began they were
worth less than 80 cents on the dol
lar. Interest was unpaid. and the reve-
nues were absorbed in maintaining
IsmaiPs very extravagant establish
ment. Taxation was outrageous; Of
fetal corruption ran riot everywhere;
the fellaheen were virtually enslaved,
driven to uncompensated labor on pub
lie works.
England installed her managers Of
finances and, holding the purse, held
actual control Of the government.
There have been some sixteen years
Of this administration Of an estate
that was apparently hopelessly bank
rupt. The credit of Egypt has been so
fully re-established that her bonds are
per cent. Taxes are lowered, economy
in public affairs enforced and honesty
Of administration has taken the place
Of open corruption. The creditors have
had their holdings made profitable
again and the security so good as to
rival English consels in value, while
ultimate payment in full is assured.
So confident do they feel that they have
accepted a reduction Of interest rates
from to and per cent. Land has
been wrested from the desert by irriga-
ton, and thus the revenues Of the
state increased. Meanwhile preiudiced
observers are obliged to attest the pros
porous conditions Of the country. We
have each our notions Of England and
Englishmen, and they are not compIi-
mentary as a rule, but we have no
doubt that there are any number. Of
creditors of bankrupt estates in this
country who would be better off had
English methods Of handling bankrupt
estates been followed by the receivers
who absorbed the bulk Of those in
which they held investments.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-02
GRIFFIN WANTS A BOND.
Still Confined in Jail ut BeatrIc,
Neb,

w. II. Griffin. st. Paurs second mayor. q"
spent New Years in the Jail at Beatrice,
Neb.. according to the following telegram re,
ceived last night:
wv. H. Griffin has not succeeded in secur-
Ing bond from his st. Paul friends, and in
consequence will remain in jail over Sunday.
He received a message from E. A. Jaggard
stating that his bond could not be completed
before Monday When he read it he re-
been receiving by wire regarding his bond
was simply on account Of his having been
on a spree and he supposed he could get
along without bond now, as his hearing is
set for Monday
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-02
On n Sod Errand.

Mrs. Ellis, Of the buckingham, has gone to
Grand Forks to attend the funeral OF Mr.
and Mrs. Howe, who were burned in the re-
cent Hotel Dacotah fire there. The remainI
will be taken to Michigan for interment
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-02
TNDaY,S WEATYER.

WASHINGTON Jan. Forecast for Sun
day: Minnesota, North and South Dakota and
1owa-Fair; warmer; southwest to south
winds.
Wisconsin-Generally warmer; light to fresh
Houtherly winds.
Montana-Fair; warmer; south to west
winds.
A
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-02

The total wind movement was GG. 210 miles,
the prevailing direction northwest. and tho
highest velocity observed forty miles, which
happened twice in April and June.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-02

apologist or defender is what the hon
est people of this country would like to
know.
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