The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-16

Uncle Sam has been uniformly successful on
every occasion In which he has appealed to
the arbitrament of the sWord.-Stillwater Ga
.e..e.
If the editor of the Gazette will consult the
history of the war of 1925 and compare the
causes of that war. the purposes of engaging
in 1t, with the results accomplished and Sc
cured by treaty. he will modify his opinion
very considerably.
Congressman McCleary has our thanks for
a package of government garden seeds. AS
there was no birdseed in the package we are
unable to use 1t. consequently the first
gardener who applies can have the seed
PiDestone Star.
There is in the last sentence that looking Of
the gift horse in the mouth that makes doubt
full the sincerity Of the thankfulness expressed
in the first.
The people who were jumping on Mckinley
several days ago are not so rabid as they were
by any means. They have discovered to their
modification that the president knows what
he is about and that their actions were based
on hot-headed and ineXcusable impatience.-
GAINESVILLE Argus
Have you read the senate and house resolu-
lions? They jumped right onto the presiden-
tial hack.
The st. Paul Dispatch intimates that the
insurance commissioner holds the most lucra-
tive office at the state capitol. The insinuation
is broad enough to breed trouble between the
Dispatch editor and insurance commissioner
Taylor's Falls Journal.
1t is its point, not its breadth. that will
hurt. But there will be no trouble bred.
Br'er Rabbit is sagacious bird.
ception of the public of Its views.-Mnne-
apolis Times.
Referred to the Lowell Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to PROPOSITIONS.
The mystery Of the destruction of
the Maine opens the door wide to the
man with an exuberant fancy and in
vites him to enter. Several have gone
in and ploughed the field, but for bril-
lianey Of imagination, for breadth Of
scope, and FEASIBILITY of plot, the cake
will have to be awarded to Mr.. Charlie S
A. Crandall, but known to the Span
iards as Emanuel Escadaro, who has
managed to work off on some gullible
managing editor fairy tale that sur
passes all those of his predecessors
Weyler, of course, is the heavy villain
in his narrative, and Spanish gold fig
ures in it, but with vagueness of
statement as to the amount that is
tantalizing. Like most Of these yarns
spun by men unfamiliar with all the
necessary details, there are weak
points, a heel of Achilles, in his yarn.
It is vulnerable at the point of plant
ing the mines, for one instance. He
was assisted, he says, by five Italian
laborers and two Spanish boatmen.
In the same issue Of the gullible paper
glare and blare Of a scarehead and
an extra is the statement Of Capt
Sigsbee to the senate committee in
vestigating the disaster. He said that
Capt. Sampson agreed with him that a
mine such as would have power 10
destroy the Maine could "have been
planted from a scow between decks"
They also agreed that twelve men could
handle the job. The expert's-f
Capt. Sampson is one in handling tor
pedoes-judgment is that it would take
a scow and twelve men to do what
this romancer says he did with seven
men and boat. 1t is just as we'll to
read all these stories with critical
eyes. Don't swallow them whole.
They will impair your mental diges-
ton.