The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-02
Sir Williams Advocate Appears.

Sir Williams Advocate Appears.
The Advocate should be neither a
knave nor a fool. He ought not to be
funny or faint-hearted. The receptacle
provided him by nature for brains
ought to be supplied with a modicum Of
something resembling good gray mat
ter. These will naturally be the re-
Elections of Sir William c. Van Horne
when he reads the two editorials that
will be clipped from the Minneapolis
Times and forwarded to him by the
two geHtlemanly representatives of the
500 who visited it's editor last week
and invited him to reply to certain
+ structures upon the Canadian Pacific
railway which were printed in The
G | o b e.
The argument OF the Times opens
with the admission that the Canadian
Pacific is a subsidized railroad-an I'M
fortunate admission for the Advocate,
for it embodies the very pith of the
contention between American interests
and this foreign corporation.
1t is indeed subsidized. From the
English and Canadian governments it
received $215, 100000 for the construction
of military highway between Halifax
and Vancouver, which should serve as
a menace to the United States and
medium for the transportation OF Eng
lish troops to any threatened point on
the Canadian frontier. 1t extended its
connections to American soil. 1t die
tated a Canadian tariff which discrimi-
mates against American manufactures,
American labor and American enter
prise. 1t early framed a policy hostile
tc American interests in the broader
meaning of that phrase and drastically
pursued it. 1t bullied the American
transcontinental lines into the payment
OF 100000 by the threat that it would
extend its rails into California and de-
stroy that amount of business unless
the money was forthcoming. 1t de-
manded differentials and demurred
when told there were no natural disad-
vantages that warranted this levying
OF blackmail 1t violated it's agree
ments with the American lines, as will
be learned by the interstate commerce
commission, now investigating it's of
fenses in Chicago. 1t created havoc
with the millions of dollars of thou
sands of Americans who have invest
ed in the stocks and bonds and deben-
lures of American railroads. Respon-
sible to no stockholders. as we under
stand the word, and backed by it's
enormous subsidy, it has "cut loose"
and Americans are suffering from the
raids Of this Spanish marauder.
us 1t the concern of any one in the
nit hot &c. al
the Times demands to know. We have
a suspicion that Americans generally
are concerned; that they have at least
awakened to the gravity of the situa-
ton, and that the sessions of the in
terstate commerce commission and the
Anglo-American commission, soon to
meet in Quebec will fully illuminate
our always esteemed contemporary.
There fingers in the minds of men
in the Northwest the memory of a
grievous wrong perpetrated by Chica-
go shippers and Chicago railroads. The
Twin Cities suffered at their hands.
The 500 reaped the benefits of the fight
made by the Chicago hog and it's rail-
road connections against this North
western country. From the uproar in
Minneapolis whenever the Canadian
Pacific is pricked by a Minnesota news
paper. it would seem as if the suspi-
cion were well founded that the Min
neapolis jobbers are receiving favors
and privileges which their ST. Paul
brethren wot not of. However, the
st. Paul merchants can console them
selves with the reflection that they are
honest in any agreements they may
have with Minneapolis, even If they
are occasionally duped by their less
scrupulous neighbors. We trust Sir
William will repress a smile when he
reads in the Times that the 500, the
Canadian Pacific's American ally,
came in for it's share Of condemna-
ton" by the Chicago newspapers and
railroad men, and that ''the pressure
brought to bear upon the 500" to COM
pei it to yield to the demands of Chi
| cago through the Canadian Pacific
was great, but proved unavailing.'
! What the shippers of the Northwest
| want is even lower rates on the 500
than they are now getting, and if its
| parent, the Canadian Pacific, was
managed with half an eye to American
| interests, it could we'll afford to give
| them. 'The people will not be fooled"
says the Times. True enough. The
! Clio b will contribute tie facts, now
| and again, that will prevent their be-
| ing fooled either by the Times or by
the Canadian Pacific railroad. The
Times admits that ''the interstate COM
merce commission ought certainly TO
| investigate every legitimate complaint
against the railroads." Ye editor is
ratified, and we shall expect to see in
his next issue one more admission, to
wit, that American interests have "a
legitimate complaint" against the Ca
madam Pacific. At all events we sus-
| pect that the commission is not sitting
| in Chicago to investigate anything else.
May we presume to advise Sir Will
lam to swap his Advocate for a genu-
| inc donkey with nothing about him to
suggest the hybrid? We like donkeys.
They know something.
Senator Hoar to the lmperia!ists.
The imperialists Of the Republican
party are forced to listen to very
pointed remarks from some Of their
seges. Senator Morrill,, Of Vermont,
has advised them very strongly to de-
| sist from their folly. Senator Hoar, Of