The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-18

the most important lesson of the war. and
we are unwilling to entertain a doubt that
| 1t VIII be utilized.-Washington Post.
It Is good thing that the supply Of Ohio
statesmen Is tnexhaustible. John Hay of
ohlo' Is to succeed Judge Day, Of Ohio. as
secretary OF state. that Judge Day, of Ohio,
may take place on the peace commission
ana afterward United States judgeship.
Whitelaw Reid, Of Ohio, is likely to succeed
John hay, OF Ohio, as minister to England.
| ANY ONO men unprovided for will please
send on their 'bapets-Pittsburg Post.
Here Is startling admission by the New
York Tribune:4 The bountiful year which
closed on June 30, 1893 saw a material in
| crease Oh exports, amounting to 1913 per cent
oi the whole country and 1851 per cent for
the Atlantic ports. In this prosperity New
YORK did not share On the contrary, 1t suf-
ieied loss OF more than 1 per cent since
1871 In Its proportion of the entire exports,
and OF more than per cent since 1894. Nor
Is thls because Of some temporary condition,
some mere fuctuation In trade 1t is part
OF steady, persistent process. A few years
ago new YORK had more than half the eX-
port trade OF the nation. Now 1t has little
more than one-third. In 1894, even, 1t had
4l.S per cent 1t fell remorselessly to 4O1
per cent In 1895. to 37.2 in 1897. and to S61
IN 1888. Next year 1t will scarcely amount to
| % per cent. True, there is on the other
| hand, gain In Imports but this by no
means counterbalances the loss in exports,
anu Il Is really not. actual gain but
| merely smaller loss than that suffered by
Atlantic ports as whole. The total foreign
commerce OF this port, both imports and ex-
ports shows steady and not slow decline
IN It's proportion to that of the whole country.
| only few years ago New York's foreign
trade was nearly two-thirds of the whole
| Foreign trade Of the nation. Now 1t is much
less than one-half AS late as 1890 1t was
! 90 per cent. In 1896 1t was 51.4 per cent.
In 1897 1T was only 4S per cent. In 1898 1t
was only 45.9 per cent. By the end of the
century 1t threatens to be less than 40 per
| cent.
senator M. A. Hanna Is reported as pre-
dieting that the next presidential campaign
Will be fought ON the Republican war record
Such declaration, If official. will be likely
| TO raise the question: Upon what part of
the Republican war record?
VIII IL be fought upon the record Of Re-
publicans like Alger in the war department.
| or upon the record of Republicans like
| Roosevelt in the front?
| senator Hanna's reported suggestion that
| WA ASSoiuS WILL COuIiOl III lSVU SQOulQ con-
vey very strong intimaton to the admins
| tration that If 1t does not take preventative
| measures now, 1t may be forced to fight the
| presidential campaign on Alger's war record,
| irrespective of its own desires.-Pittsburg
| Dispatch (Rep).
folloWlng extraordinary statement Is tele-
graphed to the Philadelphia North American
by its Washington correspondent, Gen.
Alger has had a career in developing natures
resources that has brought him immense
wealth. Associated with him in the land COM
pan1es Of Michigan was Col. Hecker, who is
now In the war department engaged In the
business OF purchasing transports for the
government or negotiating with owners
Shafter, who was sent to Cuba with the army
OF invasion over many older heads in tLs
regular army. like Miles, Merritt, Brooke,
Young and others. is Ayers partrer, or
was recently, in the development Of Western
mines and timber lands, and LIS reported
millionaire. There Is a story that Miles
wanted to go to Cuba at the outset, and the
president wrote him a letter in which he
instructed the commaning general to use his
| own judgment about going. Miles. it is said,
claims he never received this letter. This Ia
one of the numerous causes of friction be-
tween Alger and Miles, and when Gen. Niles
| made known to the president that he had
| never received the letter he was directed to
go forthwith to Santiago and take charge of
campaign that was on the verge Of failure
! 1t is alleged that Alger wanted Shafter tn
be the real hero, SO that public opinion would
force the latter's appointment as military
| governor OF cuba, and thus give a syndicate
| or Michigan men, Of whom Senator Mcmillan
is one, and the names of the others NAV he
guessed, monopoly Of all franchises. Nc
MILAN, 1t will be recalled, has recently mcde
an agreement with Alger not to be a ca d.
GATE again for senator, and will give his
aid to Alger. Recently Michigan man. now
| IN Washington, who is familiar with electri-
cal railroads, was taken into the confidence
| OF the Michigan boomers and offered a berth
to manage that particular feature of the de-
velopment Of the islands resources by the
Michigan crowd. Gen. Duffleld, who for MANY
years has been counsel for AIger, was gwen
br1gadier generalship early in the war and
sent down to be one Of Skaters right-hand
men,"
| The officials Of the state agricultural college
and experimental station of Iowa deserve
| credit for making an effort to arouse among
the actual farmers Of the state greater inter-
est in the work of the two closely related
institutions. The experiment will be made
| this week of an excursion day when farmers
may reach the college farm from all parts
of the state at very low rates. The governor
OF the state will be present to speak and the
excursfonists will be shown the workings Of
| the college and experiment station by those
who know all about them. Much of the
criticism Of agricultural colleges on account
of alleged departure from their primary pur-
pose would be answered If the farmers would
become personally acquainted with the col
lege and farm management. The excursion
scheme ought to prove a good one.-Omaha
Bee. tt
The current number of Town Topics con-
tains the following paragraph: "Not a
single Of the high salaried and loudly
advertised war correspondents has d's-
tinguished himself during the present cam
paign. Not single brilliant description OF
battle on sea or land has been written By
any of them. ALI Of the best work has teen
done by plain ordinary reporters-tte most
of them connected with the Associated Press
who were not allowed to sign their names
to their articles The utter absence Of DR..
Russells and Archibald Forbeses has been
war. which has rubbed the plating off many
gold BRICKS"
It appears that at an elementary examina-
ton in English which was lately held in a
school near New York two sentences were
scholars The first sentence to be cor
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