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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16
REACHING MINNESOTA.

With the coming month the movement
for good roads will be .inaugurated in
this state. The movement has spread
generally through the Middle West, and
the present month is given over to good
roads conventions In Illinois, Iowa and
Wisconsin, as next month will be devoted
to the same movement in Minnesota and
the Dakotas,
The economic and social value of good
roads has been in progress of demonstra-
tion during the entire century just draw
ing to a close. The prevailing general en-
lightenment has during that period en-
abled the people of the older countries
to understand in somewhat imperfect
way the advantages which spring from
easy means of communication, especial
~ in more sparsely settled districts
The value of good thoroughfares to So
Ciety in general has been known
among all races even partially civilized
since the days of the Roman causeways.
1t is only during the present generation,
and with the advent of the bicycle and
the automobile, that the real worth of
good roads as a factor in improved So
cial conditions has begun to make itself
we'll understood among the American peo-
pie. And yet. concurrently with the
growth of the new movement in the
West there has developed an antagonistic
movement in the shape of an organiza-
ton among farmers to put an end to
the demand for improved highways.
Every class of society reaps more or
less advantage from the improvement of
the public highways. It is the farmer
alone who gains the entire benefit in
every direction That improvement will
render his life all that it is not today
He it is who has to bear the burdens of
the present barbarous conditions. He is
ostracized from society and the outside
world. He sees his boys and girls turn
their backs on the dull and sodden life
of their youth to get lost in the wilder
nesses Of city life, because they have
been deprived of the rational enjoyments
which they should have at their disposal
and would have if the means existed for
easy, speedy and comfortable communi-
cation with surrounding localities.
1t has always been So Men are ever
blind to their real interests. AS the
farmers of Illinois are now doing, so did
the farmers of Massachusetts a few
years ago. They banded themselves to-
gether and fought the good roads move
ment tooth and nail in the courts and
out They We're beaten, and now they
express themselves as glad they were
beaten. What they denounced in 1892 they
have since appropriated a half million
dollars for the advancement of. and are
now crying out for an additional appro-
priation from the state of a million dol.
lars. They have in the interval built in
their state over 1000 miles of excellent
road, and they are now determined that
every main road in every county in the
state shall be rebuilt on scientific prin-
ciples as early as possible, and that
everything necessary shall be done to
keep the roads thus built in the best pos
sible repair
Minnesota farmers will do themselves
and their state a lasting benefit if they
take hold of the movement f1r good
roads, which opens in Duluth Oct 16
and push it to practical fulfllment as
early as possible
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16
Evils of Vaccination.

TO the Editor of the Globe:
I was much pleased with your editorial
this morning. on politics In Education"
1t is all true; and now if you would only
speak out against that other attempt Of
a political machine or board, which is
endeavoring to compel the innocent chill
1ren Of the city to be vaccinated for the
sole benefit of doctors who desire to
poison them for life, you would confer
81 greater blessing upon the poor and
helpless. who are thus forced to undergo
torture and sickness for nc purpose ex-
ccpt TO render them susceptible to all
climatic changes and premature death
st. Paul, Sept. Is. &C. S. w.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16
BURNED TO DEATH.
Missouri Pacific Freight Goes
Through Burning Bridge.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., Sept ia
wreck occurred tonight on the Missouri
Pacific, eight miles south of tbs city, re-
sulting in the less of three lives, and the
destruction of twenty freight cars and an
engine Only a few particulars can be
obtained, as those who knew are not
alive A freight train was running to
make Julian a passing point with the
passenger, and ran into bridge which
was on fire and it gave way with them
The engine, with Engineer Gillian. his
fireman, name unknown, and Head Brake
man Foster went into the ditch. and
some twenty cars piled upon them. The
wreck took fire, and a strong wind pre-
vailing at the time, it was soon blazing
mass, taking fire from the engine The
remainder of the train crew was helpless
to tender assistance, and they were burn
cd To Gaat tn
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16
WEATHER FOR TODAY.

' Minuesota-Rain Saturday, with cooler
I'm eastern portions. Sunday fair; fresh
southerly winds, shifting Saturday night
10 mort hwcsterly winds.
Wisconsin-Rain Saturday. Sunday,
rain, followed by fair and cooler increas-
ing Southeasterly winds.
loWa-Rain Saturday, with cooler in
eastern portions. Sunday, fair; fresh
southeriy, shifting Saturday night to
ncI thWesterly winds.
North Dakota-Fair Saturday, with
cooler in central and eastern portions.
Sunday. fair; winds shifting to north
WESTERLY.
! South Dakota-Fair Saturday, with
cooler in central and eastern portions.
Sunday. fair: winds shifting to north
westerly.
Montana Fair Saturday and Sunday;
Variable winds.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16
DIR MoDERN LORD NORTH.

Senator "Biu" Chandler has put TO
Senator BILLY Mason set of questions
anent the Philippine question. through the
medium of his own and other papers.
There are fifteen of them some pertinent,
others impertnent Senator Billy" not
having a newspaper of his own, will
probably wait until congress assemblies
and then fire his answers, across the
chamber in those thundercus tones that
have awed Illinois rural audiences, at
his dminutive antagonist. Senator
"Bil.y" is not quite as much of states
man as is Senator BILL" but he has
greater depth of lung and a vocabulary
quite as richly stored, and the day that
"Billy" talks back at Bill will be one
of the gallery field days.
Question 1.-THE longest gun in Sena-
tor "Birs" battery-is: Are Agui-
naldo and his immediate associates at the
head of any government entitled to recog-
there? Is there any republic there? Is
there any enrolment of voters there? Is
there any suffrage there? Is there any
government there representing the whole
or the larger part of the people
there?" This is one of the impertinent
questions, the answer TO which might be:
be or no? Does the fact that there is
no government there such as we have
give us the right to force one on them
not at all like ours? Have they not tho
same inherent and inalienable right TO
form whatever government suits them
that the fathers asserted for themselves
quarter ago?
When Pitt and Burke, Richmond and
Rockingham were defending the revolt of
the colonists, could not North have put
to them precisely the question put by
Senator Bill to Senator "B1Ily?' Might
he not have asked: care Peyton Ran
Golph and his immediate associates at the
head of any government entitled to
recognition? Was there any enrolment
! of voters who chose the members of the
continental congress? Is there any gov
eminent there representing the whole or
the larger part Of the people there?" And
would Pitt or Burke or the lord or the
duke have been able to make other
! answer than that which Senator BILLY
| can make to Senator "BilI' today?
There was government there that
raised armies which fought the British
soldiery, and there IS a government in
Luzon that raises armies which fight
so far, with the climate for any ally
TOO successfully to warrant us in indulg-
ing in any Qualification. And undoubted-
~ that government is just as good for
its subjects as was the continental con-
gress for cur ancestors, or as is our pres
ent government for US. These things are
all relative. and that is one of the facts
which Senator "Bilr' does not grasp.
The one sufficient answer to Senator
Bills" fifteen questions Is that we have
no right, legal or moral, to force upon a
people, by might, government to which
they do not assent. That Is all there is
of it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16

The Thirteenth regiment is scheduled to
get home Oct. Il, but it seems probable
be!ated train will get it home on the
18th, which, by the way, is Friday. It
will be remembered that the regiment
left here on Friday, May 1S
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16

The current issue of Der Wanderer is
composed of twenty-six pages. 1t is in
honor of the coming of the German Cath
Ole societies. The paper contains large
number of excellent half tones and much
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16

CHICAGO, Sept. 15.-Jack O'Brien, the
Philadelphia welterweight, won decis-
1t is perfectly plain that 1 cannot give
the Fort Dearborn Athletic club tonight.
after six rounds of hard milling.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16

AT any rate it is apparent that the
members of the trust conference do not
trust one another
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16

OF course Mckinley isn't going to New
York. He doesn't want to go where some
other fellow will get all the bouquets.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16

letterpress of more than ordinary worth
The paper does credit to st. Paul and to
its editor, Joseph Matt.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16

If it is going to require 5000 policemen
to handle the Dewey crowd in New York,
some of the people are likely to be
handled without gloves.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16

A 5OO-pound aerolite has just fallen in
Ohio. But that isn't the kind of light
Ohio needs
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16

The silence Of Gov. Hazen S. Pingree
Is accounted for. He is in the state of
Maine and telegraph tolls westward are
rather higher than from Michigan.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16

Prospective presentations to Admiral
Dewey get thicker every hour. 1t looks
now as if the Republican party would
present him with a sheet of paper with a
request that he put on it: 81 don't want
to be president"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16

Nobody has suggested a cake walk as
part of the entertainment for President
MCkiniev
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16
QOi south, weather, ClOuu
RIVER BULLETIN.
Danger Stage

River Forecast Till 8 P. M.-The Mis-
sissippi will change but little in the vi
cinity of ST. Paul.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16

Michigan has seen rainbow, too. Gov.
Pingree will not again be a candidate for
office
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-16
NESrERnAY,S TEMPERATURES.
Washington time & p. m. st. PauD.
ST. PAUL.

Yes erday's observations, taken by the
United States weather bureau, st. Paul
T +. Lyons observer, for the twenty
four hours ended at o'clock last night.
-Barometer corrected for temperature
Arizona republican., 1899-10-18
PUZZLE FOR POLITICIANS.

The Sam Jones vote in Ohio is 4
question which is causing a good dea
of anxious speculation. What is known
is that the petitions already filed fol
the nomination of the golden rule can
didate contain about 49, goo names and
it is expected that the whole of the pc
titions will include $4,000 to LOG
names. The indication of a consider
able movement to independence causes
hutter which is betrayed by the gen
eral plea that it is much easier to get
signers to a petition than to get the
votes of the signers. With regard to
the ordinary petition this may be true,
but man is not likely to sign his
name to a nomination paper unless he
intends to support the nomination. 1t
is evident that this factor of uncer-
tainty causes a decided nervousness
among the regular party men. If the
democrats believed that more than
their ranks, they would be very much
disposed to throw up their hands. II
the republicans thought that the great
er part of the $4,000 or more votes
would be from their side they would
feel very squirrny. That they do feel
uneasy is proved by the energy with
which the republicans are avering that
the Jones vote w illbe nearly all demo-
cratic, and the democrats are declaring
that it will be wholly republican
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-18
ATTACKS ON UNITED STATES

The cause of the attacks upon the
United States which have been made
by few newspapers in several of the
countries between Mexico and the Ar
gentine Republic and Chill in the past
few months can now be fairly judged.
All the papers, or nearly all of them,
which have been in the anti-American
crusade are, it has been learned, under
the control of European capitalists
English, French, German and Russian.
No paper owned by natives of the
Latin-American nations in which they
are published has, as far as can be
learned, joined in this assault upon this
country. 1t is jealousy of the United
States, which has more of the foreign
trade of Mexico than all the European
countries combined, and which prom
ises to secure an ascendancy in most
of the countries of Central and South
America in the near future. Europe
sees it's market closed in the case of
Mexico and endangered in the case of
some of the countries to the southwark
by the United States, and the newspa-
pers in Central and South America,
which are working in its interests, are
trying to arouse a prejudice against
this country on that account so as to
raise up obstacles against it in Latin
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-18
PATRIOTISM VS.. PARTY.

| The leader of the liberal party Of
Great Britain, Campbell Bannerman
made speech the other day for the
purpose of laying down the lines of his
partys course in the immediate flu
ture. A remark he made on that occa-
sion deserves a word of comment. 1t
was to the effect that patriotism de-
manded that in this critical period
when war is imminent, nothing should
be done to embarrass the government -
The British people criticiSe their gov
eminent very freely-even bring
sharply to book the conduct of cam
paigns-but to do nothing to embarrass
the government when it is struggling
with great responsibilities is an I'M
written law seldom broken. This is a
wise criticism, by all means, but let US
avoid giving comfort to the common
enemy. Aguinaldo appeals confidently
to one party in this country as a most
valuable ally, and many believe that
there would have been no armed rebel
lion in the Philippines but for the be-
lief of the leaders that our govern
ment would be embarrassed in its eff
forts to maintain order. We cannot
doubt that very large majority of the
people of this country, including a
moiety of the political party which has
pronounced against it, sustain the gov
eminent in its general purpose to con-
quer a peace in the islands undoubted-
ly under our sovereignty, and that the
only effect of the clamor raised against
the war will be to lengthen it and in
crease its horrors.-BostOn Herald.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-18
BR1TA1N's LOVE FOR GOLD MINES

The poet says the wayfarer with
empty pockets whistles as he goes
along, needless of robbers Today pow
erty is often the protection of nations
as it is of individuals. But the nation
which is weak and has gold mines must
beware. Its riches excite the greed of
the majestic highwayman, Great Brit
ain, and it's feebleness emboldens the
highwayman to seize the coveted
sources of treasur The accursed
thirst for gold has been the cause of
most of the recent disputes between
Great Britain and other countries. If
there were no gold mines in the Trans
vaal, English troops would not now
be sailing to South Africa. Had there
been no gold in Venezuela, there would
have been no dispute over territory
with Great Britain. If Alaska did not
produce gold as we'll as ice, there would
be no controversy over its boundaries.
Chicago Tribune.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-18
PHOENIX. OCTOBER 10. 1899.

If the readers of the Gazette have
had any doubt that the recent change
in the management of
AT that paper means re-
ITS OLD turn to the disreputable
TRICKS. methods which have
earned for it the dis
tinctfon of being foremost in the
disgraceful style of Journalism which
has cursed Arizona and impeded
its progress, a perusal of that papers
editorial columns will leave no room
for further doubt. In repeating yester-
day with hypocrftical depreciation the
infamous charges here tofore made
against Governor Murphy by an un-
mentionabIe sheet, the Gazette, for all
its pretensions to a modicum Of de-
cency and standing in the community,
labels itself anew as the willing ally
and mouthpiece of everything which
goes toward befouling the name of Ar
izona. Knowing that the governors
high position debars him from descend
ing to the level of a controversy With
it, the Gazette assumes, doubtless, that
it can lombard him with the filth fur
nished by it's guttersnipe partner, and
do 50 with impunity.
But it remains to be seen whether
the decent element in Phoenix, which
element comprises nine-tenths of our
citizens and all of the business men
who are doing their utmost to build
here a great city of respectable peo-
pie, will encourage by it's support a
journalistic policy which disgraces the
city and the territory.
From time out of mind it has been
the custom among a certain class of
Arizona newspapers to heap abuse
upon every public official, to blackmail
every public enterprise, and to present
themselves to the world covered with
their own corruption, and it is because
that class of newspapers have been re
garded as representative that Arizona
was so long a byword in the east and |
target for the ridicule of civilization
How much longer do the progressive
PEOPLE of Phoenix propose to tolerate
blight? Sheets which could not sur
vive even among the slums of eastern
communities could not live in this
community were the business men |
here to assert their freedom and refuse |
longer to be blackmailed into a quasi |
support of alleged newspapers whose |
methods they detest.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-18
UNwARRANTED ACCUSATION.

Generals Miro and Sanchez, profess
sfonel rebels, in all probability are a
bit premature in branding the United
States government as a tyrannicai gov
eminent and in assuming that it pro-
poses to annex Cuba with or without
the consent of the Cubans. The Unit
ed States stands definitely pledged be-
fore the world to the national indie
pendence of the Cubans and to extend
the aid and protection of this govern
ment in the establishment of a Cuban
republic. The annexation of Cuba is
possible, in honor, only at the request
of the Cubans themselves, expressed
through the medium of a popular vote.
There is as yet no reason to charge
that this government intends to break
faith with Cuban people. It's efforts SO
far have been for the best interests of
Cuba. 1t is establishing a condition OF
law and order unknown in Cuba for
many years. 1t is teaching the Cubans
some very necessary lessons in gov
eminent. 1t is making their cities san
itary to a degree never before attained.
st Louis Republic.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-18

The question of municipal ownership
is attracting attention the country
over. Here in Phoenix
MUNICIPAL it occupies the minds of
OWNER many good citizens, and
SHIP. is likely to assume
much Importance in the
near future There was a debate on
the subject in Syracuse, N. Y, a few
days ago which proved very interest
ing. ]. B. Cahoon opened the discus
sion by offering a resolution that a
committee be appointed to investigate
municipal lighting plants, the presi-
dent of the municipal league approving
the selection of an expert to be selected
by the National Electric Lighting as
ISOLATION, which offers to bear one-half
of the total expense (said total cost not
to exceed $4,000
John MacVicar, mayor of Des
Moines, Iowa, thought that the NUM-
cipal bribe-giver in the community was
not the advocate of municipal owner
ship, but in more than one instance has
been proved to be the representative of
the private corporation. He had learned
that it was not alone the city official
who was sometimes bribed, but more
often the so-called influential citizen"
or the venaI press. By gifts of money
or stock and by free service, these in
fiuences We're more frequently pur-
chased than We're aldermanic votes. In
conclusion, he said:
I'VE, who believe in municipal re
form, are in the paradoxicaI position of
proclaiming that our citizens are doing
badly that which they are doing, yet
urging that they assume new duties.
Nothing could do more to bring out the
latent virtue of the Indifferent citizen
than freighting the ship of state, al
ready, as he fears, overloaded, with
still dearer interests. Every citizen
would be interested in securing the
greatest efficiency in the public service,
and in a very short time demands
would be made by a. quick
Arizona republican., 1899-10-18

ened and enlightened popular SEN
timent for the enactment of a
as the corporation interests OPP
crate these public utilities for private
gain, just SO long will there
be uncompromising opposition to
civil service and good city gov
eminent. Remove first the in
'centive to this opposition, which
to my mind can be accomplished by
removing our public franchises from
the public mart, and a new era will
dawn in which the best citizenship will
be the dominant force in municipal
government"
Arizona republican., 1899-10-18

Compare The Republican with other
daily newspapers that circulate in this
territory Take yesterdays edition,
for example The Republicans report
of the great international yacht race
will take rank with that of many news
papers in towns five times the size of
Phoenix. No other paper in. Arizona
gave as comprehensive a description
of the thrilling event. The progress of
the Boer war was also noted in a
most comprehensive way. All the i'm
portant events OF the day were pre-
scented, as well as the current news of
Arizona The Republican invites COM
parsons. They result most advan-
tageously to this newspaper.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-18

The Republican hopes that the Column
bia will not be credited with the race
won yesterday from the
SHOULD Shamrock The Sham
NOT BE rock lost her topmast
COUNTED. within half hour after
crossing the line and
had to put back to Sandy Hook for re-
pairs. The dispatches say that the
Columbia sailed over the course and
the race was awarded to her. OF course
it was not the fault of the Columbias
skipper that the Shamrock was dis
abled, and under the rules it was his
right to finish the course, but it would
have been more sportsma Mike. in our
lightship, and declined to take advan-
tage of the Shamrock's mishap. The
awarding of the race to the Columbia
is bound to cause adverse criticism
abroad, and there was general desire
to avoid any appearance of unfairness
The Columbia is the better boat but
the fact should be made clear to the
world in the only possible way-by d
clean victory in whole sail breezes.
Judging from what we have seen and
read of Sir Thomas Upton he would
not have claimed a race won in such
circumstances. 1t is a barren honor
race ought to be sailed over again.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-18

The Prescott Prospect assures US
that it will advocate the use of silver
as money at the ratio of 16 to 1 and
be clean in it's handling OF the ques-
ton If it follows this plan it will be
unique There isn't another Is to 1
newspaper in Arizona that is willing
to concede common honesty to one that
endorses the gold standard. Success
to the Prospect.
Arizona republican., 1899-10-18
ANXIOUS TO HONOR THEM.

Many citizens are discussing the ad-
visibility of rendering some sort of a
reception to the gallant Kansas boys
of the Twentieth when they pass
through the city on their return trip,
if the stop in the city is at a reason
able hour. AS Kansas towns treated
New Mexico volunteers right royalty,
it is no more than fair to return the
compliment. - Albuquerque On. Nd
Journal-Democrat