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associate justice of the supreme court
to twenty-one years. Short terms of
office for those entrusted with judi
cial functions have no tendency to
promote the efficiency of the judicial
department of the state government nor
to subserve consistency in the moulding
of our jurisprudence.
Judge Severance.
The venerable Judge Severance of
Mankato is another who favors appoint
ment by the chief executive. Here is
what he says:
The supreme judges should be ap-
pointed fer life or during good behavior
They should be appointed by the gov
ernor with the advice and consent of the
senate. In no other way can there be
an Independent judiciary. All other
judges should be appointed in the same
way and for the same term of office.
Trouble Ahead.
Agoncillo, the representative of the
Philippine insurgent leader, Aguinaldo.
is on his way from London to New York
to resume, as he puts it, his duties as
representative of the Filipino govern
mcnt to the United States. In an inter-
view Agonoillo gave out the following:
"The only portion of the Spanish
American treaty which we are concerned
in is the cession of the Philippines,
which is illegal, as the Spaniards lost
their sovereignty over the islands and
the Americans cannot dispose of the fu-
ture of the archipelago without consult
ing the Fil1pinos. Their consent, by
popular vote, is necessary. AS univers-
al suffrage forms the basis of the Ameri-
can constitution, the United States can
not carry out this measure. The result
of the peace commissions deliberations
is only satisfactory to us inasmuch as
Spain is turned out of the Philippine ISL
ands.
81 can only regard the possible event
ual sale of the island as being NONSENSE
CAL
my countrymen will resist to the
bitter end any attempt to sell the Phil
ippines to any foreign power. We are
anxious to be united and allied to our
good friends, the Americans, but beyond
this we are determined at all hazards to
remain independent"
During his southern trip last week
President Mckinley visited the colored
school of Booker T. Washington. To
the students he said:
"No country, epoch or race has mo-
nopoly upon knowledge. Some have
easier, but rot necessarily better, oppor-'
tunities for self-development. What
few can obtain free most have to pay
for, perhaps, by hard physical labor,
mental struggle and self-denial. But
in this great country all can have the
opportunity for lettering themselves,
provided they exercise intelligence and
perseverance and their motives and con-
duct are worthy. Nowhere ore such ia
cilities for universal education found as
in the United States. They are accessi--
ble to every boy and girl, white or black.
"Integnty and industry are the best
possessions which any man can have, and
every man can have them. Nobody can
give them tc him or take from him.
They are indispensable t" success. They
are invlucible. The merchant requires
the clerk whom he employs to have
them. The railroad corporation inquiries
whether the man seeking employment
possesses them. Every avenue of human
endeavor welcomes them. They are the
only keys to open the door of opportun-
ity to struggling manhood. Employ
ment waits ON them; capital requires
them; citizenship is not good without
them. If you do not already have them,
get them. No man who has them ever
gets into the police court, or before the
grand jury, or in the workhouse, or in
the chain gang" &.
A meeting Of the minority members
of the next legislature has been called
for December Both at the Merchants
Hotel in st. Paul. Gov. Lind will he
present and wide range Of subjects will
undoubtedly be discussed, including leg
islation desired by the governor: ELECT
and the attitude of the minority regard
ing the United States senatorshlp.