The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-14
HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE

The commission to make white the faint
OF Algerism Is becoming an object of ridtcule
ana oer1s1on from one end of the country tn
tnS other' Inc papers that have been &C
tive In investigating army abuses and in
capacity, and thereby correcting them. take
no stock in the commission It's purport ia
evident to every one. The New York Even-
ing Post says ut is all adrip with white
wash" Instead of forestalling II makes
more imperative the need of a consrassionaI
investigation. Only witnesses whose evidence
1t was known would be favorable have been
called These are volunteer witnesses and
1t Is In evidence that when their testimony
Is Of the desirable kind they receive their
reward from the administration The COM
mission Is to postpone further testimony and
visit the camps. This will tide matters over
until after the election. What has the nres-
ent condition OF the camps, reformed under
PUBIC pressure, to do with their condition
When they were pest houses and gravovards?
mat the question, and where responsible
ity comes in.-Pittsburg Post Dem1.
The Iowa State Register RepD saws that II
realizes that there Is great danger of de-
feat and IS doing everything within its power
10 lnouce the Republicans of Iowa and of all
other states to go to work for the party. and
stay at home to vote on election day"
Day by day the evidence increases that
senator Hoar knew what he was saying.
when, a couple OF months ago, he undertooi,
10 declare the attitude of Massachusetts, with
respect to the question of imperialism. " saws
the Boston Transcript (Rep). His strong
utterances satisfied the highest standards of
craftsmanship and eloquence. And now. as
one congressional convention after another ia
heIo' there mas not as yet been a break in the
ranks OF our delegation. If these men are
little Americans as the flippant and foolish
imitators of British jingoes sometimes call
lHem' then are the great Americans all dead )"
There is nothing strange about the facts
that recruiting for the regular army before
the war slack that 1t was hard tn lean
1t up to Z5,OGO men, and so slow during the
war itself that its numbers, instead of being
increased, as congress had authorized. to 81 :
GOO men, reached only about 6OCOO: or ahout
the other fact that newspapers in all parts
Of the country should be expressing the opin-
lon that q draft will be necessary If the size
Of the regular army is to be raised perma
nently to 100000 men, in order to garrison col
onies in the East and West Indies and nut
down instructions in the Philippines, Eng
land Is the only great power in Europe which
does not have compulsory system of mill
tary service, AID the experience of England
has been the same as that of this country
1t has grown increasingly difficult to keen I'm
the size Of the English army. and # has
proved necessary to lower the standard OF ad-
mission, because not enough young men Of
the former qualifications would volunteer
The opportunities for a career open to a
vigorous young man in the United States are
far greater than in England, and conse-
quently but few care to enter the army ex-
cept those who have failed outside of it. 1t
seems, therefore, a reasonable opinion which
we find IN the New Bedford Mercury Re-
publican newspaper of Massachusetts. that
1--WE very much doubt if there are a thou
sand frst-class young men in America who
can see sufficient reason for their SACRIFICING
any part Of their lives in policing the Phil
ippines Such as they are, possibly ten times
that number could be procured without much
trouble, but they would not be the best spec
linens OF young American manhood, by any
means. New York Evening Post.
Where are the remains of Christopher Co
IumbusH He died at Valladolid, May 20, 1905,
and was buried there. His remains were
afterwards transferred to the Carthusian Mon
astery of Las Cuevas, Seville. In 1888 they
were removed to San Domingo and inferred
in the cathedral there. The records of the
cathedral were destroyed by fire in 1876 In
1875 San Domingo was ceded to France, and
the remains Of Columbus or of some other
person buried there were transferred with
great pomp and ceremony to the cathedral at
Havana. Nobody Is able to affirm that these
were the remains Of Columbus, but they
answered every purpose Of national pride and
gratitude NOW they are to be sent back to
Spain, but nobody knows now any better