The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-03

The enjoyment of fighting a losing
fight is one which must sooner or later
pail on even the most enthusiastic po-
litical theorist that ever lived.
After having attempted to subdue the
rebellion, it would be a confession of cow
ard1ce and impOtency to offer conditional
terms of peace to the rebels.-St. Paul
Dispatch.
But why was the attempt made in the
first place? Who authorized Mr. McKin-
ley to pay $2O,OOO,OOO for ready-made in
surrection? Who gave Aguinaldo arms
and encouraged him to fight Spain for in
dependence? When did congress au-
thorize the expenditure of money for the
prosecution of the war with the Ftlipinos?
How many times has this government
treated with Indians and suffered no dis
grace by so doing? What glory can ac-
crue to American arms by the assassina-
ton of a lot of pagans 10000 miles away?
What would the Republican party give to
be put back where it was six months
ago?
Risking the prospect that it will ever
lastingly milf the Minneapolis Times,
the G 0 b suggests that President Nc
Kinley and the Thirteenth regiment
shake dice to decide which shall go to
Minneapolis and which come to st. Paul.
The Baltimore Herald terms the act OF
Mrs. Emmons Blaine in returning for
assessment the full value of her prop
erty warning to rich tax dodgers. -
How SO? The more she pays the less the
dodgers will be called upon to pay.
1t is the private opinion of the admins
tration that the ship of state, under Re
publican guidance, would get on very
we'll if some hilarious boys like Hoal
and Boutelle and Pingree didn't insist or
| rocking the boat.
Now that Mr. Miller has retracted his
charges against Gov. Lind, the Republican
papers in the state are industriously en-
gagged in showing him how he could have
avoided doing so.
The Milwaukee Sentinel inquiries: 'Is
German a candidate?" In the sense that
mo man has the right to refuse presi-
Dental nomination." Mr.. German is
| doubtless, a candidate.
The Japanese are bound to become
| civilized if it takes all summer and halt
| the winter. They have thrown overheard
most of their native drinks and gone to
drinking Milwaukee beer
A Connecticut judge has decided that
it is not wrong to play golf on Sunday
Over in the neighboring borough of Man
haitian they don't even think it is wrong
to play poker on Sunday.
There is a woman in Rabelals, France,
who had never heard of Dreyfus until the
day of his arrival. If only a male what a
magnificent juryman she would make!
Lese majestic has middling long reach
but it cannot put its fingers on that Bal
timOre editor who called Emperor Will
liam an unbridled wild ass"
Times ought to get decidedly better
now. The college boys who told us how
to do it last week are ready to work it
out themselves this.
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manded for damning the Texas? That
was the popular opinion of her before
| the war.
Now cannot somebody invent a gun
which will kill off the grasshopper and
the internal revenue stamp at one shot?
Some of the newspaper pictures of the
landing of Dreyfus look like an amateur
| photograph of one days catch Of fish.
J. Adam Bede has got two many Demo-
| cratic ideas in his platform to ever make
a successful Republican candidate.
Just at present the West appears to
be getting the cyclones and the East the
kissing bugs.
The newest thing out is Funston SOAP.
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