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

B
!. The commission to make white the faint
OF Algerism is becoming an object CT ridicula
ana deflSlon from enc eHd Of tie country I ],
the other The papers that have been ar
tive In investigating army abuses and in
capacity and thereby Cor: Getting them, take
no stock In the commission. It's purport Is
evident to every one. The New York Even
ing Post says sit Is all adrip with VIII e.
wash Instead Of foreStalling it makes
more imperative the need of a congressional
investigation. Only witnesses whose evidence
IL was known would be favorable have been
called These are volunteer witnesses and
1t is in evidence that when their te timony
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 pres
eht conditlon OF the camps, recormed under
puolc pressure to do with their condition
when they were pest houses and grayeyards?
That's the question, and where responsibtI-
ity comes Iin.-Pittsburg Post (Dem3.
The Iowa State Register ReDJ says that tit
realizes that there is great danger Of de-
feat and is doing everything within it's mower
to induce 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 saving
when, couple Of months ago, he undertootx
to declare the attitude of Massachusetts with
respect to the question of Imperialism saws
the Boston Transcript (RepD His strong
uGterSnces satisfied the highest standards of
craftsmanship and eloqueGce And now as
one congressional convention after another is
heId, there has not as yet been break in the
poT0lYc Of dol
little Americans, as the fippant and foolish
imitators of British jingoes sometimes call
them. then are the great Americans all dead -
There Is nothing strange about the facts
| that recruiting for the regular army before
the war was so slack that it was hard to keen
1t up to $1,000 men, and so slow during the
war Itself that its numbers, instead of being
Increased, as congress had authorized to 61-
coo men, reached only about $1,000: or about
the other fact that newspapers in all parts
Of the country should be expressing the opin-
ion that draft will be necessary If the size
OF the regular army is 10 be raised perma-
nently to lO0,0OO men, In order to garrison COL
ones 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 a compulsory system of mill
tary service, AID the experience of England
1t has grown increasingly difficult to keep I'D
! the size of the English army and it 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. It
seems therefore, reasonable opinion which
| we find in the New Bedford Mercury, a 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 theS remains of Christopher Co
! lumbus? 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 1886 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