The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-10

nations face and under its scentless
nose with impunity, nay, be regarded
as lucky sort of fellow who had got
chance to feather his nest, what will
Eot the inducements be when the agent
has the Pacific ocean between him and
p1ying eyes?
But the F'ilip1nes are not docile. They
are not filed with gratitude to us for
driving the Spaniard out They pro-
fessed it as long as they thought that
our protestations of humanitarianism
were sincere, and that the United
States had sailed forth on Don
Quixotic assault upon the forces of mis-
rule and to give TO their victims the
inestimable boon OF government by
revolution. As soon as it began to
dawn upon them that we had designs
upon their territory and We're inclined
to take 1t over and annex it, we began
to hear those ominous mutterings of
threats and resistance that forecast
the trouble we are said to be about to
pay S40,000,e00 of good money for.
AS far as we have gone in handling
subordinate races we have not demon
strated such capacity as to warrant the
expectation that we will manage these
colonial matters any better than the
French have managed theirs. We have
had "a century of dishonor" in our
relations with our Indians, and we
made a mess of our African problem.
Like the French. a portion of this
trouble the administration seems bent
upon buying will be the colonial budget
with its annual deficits. Japan annexed
Formosa, an island similar to Luzon
in population and products, and Mar
quis Ito said, last year, that it had
been only a bin Of expense TO Japan
The oldest colonies OF France, like
Martinique. Guadalupe and others. are
annual charges on the treasury to tho
extent of millions of francs. Algeria
involves a deficit of thirty millions
annually. The Congo. Senegal, TonquiR
all tell the same story, and the colonial
deficit amounts to about 100, 900, 006
francs. to say nothing Of the extraor-
binary expenses of occasional eXpedi-
tions for further conquest.
We notice that some of our minis
terial folk are rejoicing over the pun
chase that will open the Philippines Sc
their missionaries, and here, too, Their.
is trouble in store They will find
church there with four centuries of oc.
cupation and government, with vast
domains and wealth and with a people
as firmly welded TO its faith as are
the Soudanese to that of Islam. We
may expect a repetition there of ths
experiences in Armenia and in China.
with a possible recrudescence here. by
way of reaction, OF the Apaism of thres
years ago. to enter into our politics
and stir the most malignant passions
that ever ragged in human breasts. All
this would be bad enough were it t.
come as a free gift but to pay $40
100000 for 1t is a depth of idiocy
into which it is incredible to think that
even this administration viii descend.
Minnesota can bear without serious conse-
quences the affection OF a Democratic gov
ernOr.-Dispatch.
So soon is the past forgotten. We
were led TO believe by the Dispatch
that Minnesota would go to Hades on
a limited train if Lind should prove.
successful Or was that merely one CT
the Dispatch's 999 fabrications in the
interest OF the Republican ticket.
The Pioneer Press. having asserted
that the state would go to the dogs If
Lind should be elected, might now live
up 10 its preaching by moving over TO
St Croix Falls, Wis.
Every daily paper in Minneapolis
supported Mr.. Eustis. and yet Mr.. Lind
carried that city handsomely. Mr.
Eustis might have carried the city had
they all opposed him.
The election seems to have been very
damaging even down to the spellina
book. A man over in Dakota county
spells the Republican candidates name
E-a -u-s-t-i-s-e.