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The Afro-American advance., 1899-09-02

Burglars go on the principle Of helping
themselves, and they don't go TO jail until
they cant help themselves. Golden DAYS.
The Afro-American advance., 1899-09-02

Man has his wiil-bu, welran has her way.
%. W Holmes.
The Afro-American advance., 1899-09-02

To Cure a NoId In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AL
druggists refund money lift fails TO cure. a5c
The Afro-American advance., 1899-09-02

HaIr. Catarrh Cure
Is taken Internally. Price 75e.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14
The Army and Navy,

Congress-, in its usual manner has been
displaying its incapacity to deal with the
military and naval establishments Of the gov
eminent.
Whether we retain or drop the Philippine
Islands, We have need of increased army and
navy establishments, while we have seen DEM
onstrated the defective character of the staff
of the army and the admirable character of
the instructed officers of the line Of the army
and the navy.
So far as the army is concerned, bill has
passed the house Of representatives which,
it is true, increases the army, but which also
eXaggerates all the evils upon which the
recent war threw so strong light.
To state the defect of the bill briefly it is
full of opportunity for pulls 1t is made for
the appointment and promotion of civilians,
and not for the establishment of an efficient
military force. There is hardly man among
its intelligent advocates who will not admit
that it is the worst of the three leading bills,
the other two being Gen. Miles and Repre-
sentative McClellan's bills.
1t opens the door for vast abuses through
the appointment of civilian sons and grand
sons to offices, and it contains the grave fault
of permitting the president to add sc. 900 men
to the army in his own discretion. 1t is a
bill made to catch votes, and to permit con-
gress to evade its esponsbility-Harper s
Weekly.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14
Report of "the Alger Relief Boardv

1t was made evident when President
Mckinley mitigated the sentence of
the court-lrartial corvicting Commits
sary General Eagan that, so far as eX-
ecutiye power extended, it would be
exerted to save the representatives Of
Algerism in the war department.
The courtmartial made quick work
of Eagan and promptly decided upon
his dismissal from the army. But
executive clemency ameliorated the fall
of Ayers representative, and permit
ted him to toddle out of the depart
ment to his ranch in California, in the
enjoyment of an annual income Of
$500 for six years, when he will be
regularly retired at his rank, as if
nothing had ever happened to him.
And now comes the report Of the
army investigating commission, which
distributes the WhiteWash thickly over
Alger and splits venom at Gen. Miles.
Any one who kept pace Will, the prog
ress of the investigation and noted the
open hostility displayed by some mem
bers Of the commission towards every
one who showed a disposition to offer
evidence against the department could
foresee just the outcome that is pre-
sented In the report.
But the commission made one valua-
bic discovery, which it relates as fol-
lows:
The sudden emergency which called our
people to arms after an interval of half a
century of peace with all foreign powers
was met by the war department with earnest
ness and energy. The situation found the
country unprepared with any large stock of
arms, ammunition, clothing, supplies and
equipments. That they were duly provided
and that the numerous demands on the in
dustries of our people were met so. promptly
will remain one of the marvels of history.
This discovery of "one of the mar
vels of history" has cost the COM
missiCners four and half months of
labor and official junketiug and the
country upwards of $780, 0OO-but these
are trifiing Incidents in consideration
OF the big find" To some it will an
pear strange that the war department
was so deficient in everything that
gees to make up the material for wars
uses. When the War Of the Rebellion
opened in 1861, the conditions were far
more desperate, in that everything that
could be transported had been seized
In advance by the South, through her
official rerres entatives in sympathy
with the secession movement. But
throughout the generation Of time since
ment has had nothing else to do but
prepare for just such an emergency as
that which occurred last spring The
shalloWness Of the above quoted utter
ance OF the commission is fair reflec
the close of the Civil war the depart
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14
Episthes to St. Paul.

Along in January two months after Eustis
defeat a state Republican official received a
letter from John Goodnow from far-away
China, which ran like this:
BY the time you get this Eustis will be in
and will be ripping everybody UP the back
Tell me how the boys take it,
A few days ago John wrote:
Say, when l heard John Lind had beaten
my old friend Eustis I was struck dumb
One morning during the advance sale fol
the recent engagement of The Sign of the
Cross" at the Metropolitan the hands of the
young man on the inside of the ticket window
went on a strike. 1t was bitter cold. and
when he called to "Billy" Egan to come and
relieve him Mr.. Egan shiYered. He looked
out into the lobby and saw line seemingly
without any end. Turning to his playmate
Charles Beach. he said:
"Char-i lie, I wish YOU would go out there
and break thai line
mo Willie Re LIED Mr.. Beach, "you &c
into the box Office and break it there
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14
Trusts.
him..

Elsewhere will be found the declara-
tons, as far as they go, of the two
great political parties concerning
Trusts. When it is remembered that,
during the year 1898, the capitalization
of these monsters amounted to $780,
100000, faint idea may be obtained
of their enormous influence in the in
dustrial world.
Our esteemed contemporary. the Pho
neer Press, has discovered that there
be Trusts and Trusts-that some are
constituted on the benefcent princi-
pie, and others on the monopolistic.
The C o b prefers to believe that
little good may come out Of the Trust
for the common people. The Trust Is a
natural monopoly. 1t presses hardest
upon the masses of the people-those
who are least able to endure it's eXac-
tons. The wealthy and the powerful
do not bear the burdens of the Trust
1t is the poor and the weak always.
The farmer, the mechanic, the laboring
man are the Trusts victims, because
the Trust imposes unnatural and I'M
necessary prices upon the needs of life,
whether these are sugar, oil, coal or
sumption.
high authority upon Trusts has
truthfully declared: "a monopoly in
those things which the plain people
consume, day by day, those things
which they eat and wear and use in
their daily life, is a menace to the fu-
ture of the nation itself, inasmuch as
1t affects the character Of the next
generation"
And again: The moment an in
| dividual, partnership, corporation or
! combination seeks a monopoly, that
moment his or its business methods be-
come Ubiquitous.
ESPECIALLY is this the case where the
sole object of a combination is to es-
tablish a monopoly.
1T is not surprising, therefore, that
the Trust has demoralized business
ethics. Its chief object is to put up
prices and put down competition
These objects are pursued by fair
means and foul
Resort is had to threats, fear, dis
honesty, bribery, determinations and
even crime. Business morals are cor
rupted. Dishonesty ceases to be odious.
Chicanery, trickery and fraud are ex-
! cused, provided the desired results are
attained
The great wealth and splendid tai
ents of the Trust are coupled with I'M
scrupulous methods and a greed for
sain. The end is made to justify the
| means. UnscruDulous devices and
sinuous ways are overlooked or ap-
| piauded, if they are successful.
The history of the Trust has demon
strated that when body of men seek
| a monopoly they begin to abandon
honorable business methods"
Could Characterization and denuncia-
ton be more complete? The duty of
Democracy is clear. 1t has declared
against the Trusts at three successive
national conventions. It's leaders will
| be untrue to themselves and to their
party if they do not join in the fight
against Trusts.
That distinguished leader of Democ-
racy, Col. William ]. Bryan, will spend
! tonight and tomorrow night with the
Minnesota Democracy. May he illumi-
nate this subject and electrify the
Minnesota Democracy with an utter
ance concerning the Trusts that shall
traverse our country from end to end.
Democracys pathway is clear and
Well defined
Down with the Trusts
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14
A Curfous Dirge.

Harry T. Montgomery a private in the
Thirteenth Minnesota, now stationed at Ma
Mia. in letter published in the Kansas City
Times, relates a curious incident. Manila
merchant of the weu-to-do class came to the
camp one day and told of the death of a
friend. He said his friends last request was
that a certain one of those beautiful Ameri-
can tunes" be played during the march to
the cemetery The messenger did not know
the name of the piece, and the leader of the
regimental band played few notes from Diff
ferent selections until he struck "a Hot Time
in the Old Town Tonight" The native clapped
his hands and said that was the Identical
tune his dead friend wanted. 1t seemed a
trifie odd to pay that rollicking air at a
funeral, and the musician endeavored to point
out the incongruity of it, but it was no use
"A Hot Time in the Old Town" was want
ed, and nothing else. The obsequies were q
big thing and the members Of the band did
their best to keep straight faces as they slow,
ly headed the procession down the streets.
grinding out as solemnly they could our
new national anthem" 1t was probably the
first occasion where "a Hot Time in the Old
Town" did duty as a dirge.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14

all his misery, although that loaner
has asked and receives nothing but a
reasonable and moderate return on the
investment
This has been the history Of all new
sections of the country: and the con-
ditson is due to the fact that men will
not part with their money unless they
have in sight a fair prospect Of prompt
payment of interest and an assurance
that the property loaned on will be
worth at least the face value of the
mortgage in the event of foreclosure.
1t is unreasonable to expect otherwise
Furthermore. 1t is always difficult to
attract money to undeveloped agricul-
tural sections. The risk of loss is too
great, and it has only been by the
enactment of laws rendering a fixed
rate of interest legal, and that often
times excessive and more than the in
dustries in their earlier stages Of de-
velopment could really bear. that
money could be obtained at all.
But this stage has been passed in
this section of the Northwest. and the
general rates for money are much low
er than they We're a score of years
ago. But there are many owners of
improved farms In Minnesota who are
still paying higher rates of interest
than the monetary conditions of the
country Justify. The present is a most
opportune period. therefore. for an eff
fort to be made in the way of refund
ing mortgages at lower rates, and, if
such a movement were earnestly I'M
dertaken by men whose names would
command the respect of Eastern in
vestors, there is no doubt that thou
sands of dollars might be saved an
nually to the farmers Of Minnesota in
the shape of excessive interest now be-
ing paid, and at the same time much
money now lying idle in Eastern cities
would find safe and profitable invest
ment. There is no doubt that the
period of lower rates Of interest has
arrived for this locality as we'll as
other industrious and prosperous sec
tons of the country, and that it can be
made permanent. No state in the
Union is possessed of higher average
record of credit than Minnesota. Some
of the leading farmers of this state,
for instance, would make no mistake
in organizing a movement with the end
above noted in view.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14
IN WOMAN'S REALM.
A BRONZE STATUE
OF the Late Frances willard to Be
Placed In Statuary Hall, WASH

or the Late Frances willard to Be
Placed In Statuary Hall, Wash-
ingtOn.
The Illinois senate has before II bill ap-
propriating $4,000 for the erection Of a bronze
statue Of the late Frances e. Willard, in
Statuary hail. Washington. 1t will be remem-
bered that each state in the Union is en-
titled to place two statues In this hall. and
one OF the inches reserved for Illinois being
vacant q bin was formulated containing the
following words. Prefacing the declaration
with list of citizens who made tho state
famous. the bill reads:
Whereas. The fame of none of those was
more heroically won more richly deserved
than that Of one Of our deceased citizens, dis
tngulshed for civic service in Europe and
America In new and uneXplored fed of
Christian endeavor. the effect Of whose eff
forts and achievements and the influence Of
been so marked that the world has wondered
and admired the author, organizer and ad-
vocate Of purity and temperance, Illinois
most iuustrious deceased citizen Frances T..
Willard, the uncrowned queen of purity ana
temperance whose ashes repose in peace on
the shores of Lake Michigan at Evanston. III.
voted to the spiritual welfar. CT mankind,
and the world at large has been materially
benefited by her prayers and sacrifices. Her
grand life is beacon light to the good and
true of all sects. races and cree5s in the CIV
ilized world and her wonderful achievements
are lights and landmarks on the cliffs of
fame, which will for all time illuminate the
paths of millions Of women wherever ciy'l2a-
tion has foothold, which is where woman Is
duly appreciated; and
Whereas. The priceless heritage Of such a
life belongs. Of right to Illinois, and
Whereas. She gIories in 1T and deems it
worthy of national eommemoration; there
fore. to immortalize it and to show all ma
tons how exalted a sphere woman occupies
in this great state. the following law Is here
by placed on our statute books.
II the bill passes, which seems quite prob
able Miss Willard will be the first woman
SO honored in America.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14
CHAP-BOOK VALENTINES.
Wherein Ladies and Gentlemen In
scribed Pleasing and Suitable



Verses.
The valentine rs we know 1t is. says the
Saturday Evening Post, but a modern in
novation. The written valentine has not
been established in favor 200 years, the
printed valentine scarce 100. And yet Charles,
Duke OF Orleans, held in the Tower of Lon
don in 1415. wlote sentimental and chi ta.-
rous valentines.
The valentine collection of Mr.. F. H. Baer
of Cleveland, O., contains many of the
curious little chaD-bcoks known as valentine
writer's. which at the beginning of this
century supplied pleasing and original
verses suitable for ladies and gentlemen"
Mr.. Baer's earliest written valentine was
addressed to Sarah Brett in 1850, and, in
structively, the British museum has its
counterpart, directed in the same hand to
another woman. The sheet Is a foot square
but was ingeniously folded for the post into
squares of four inches. 1t was sealed with
a heart, and about the four sides ran in faded
ink the lines:
when you hear this harte behold.
Twill break as you these lines unfold.
1.-THE power of envy cannot pretend
To say 1 have falls verses pond.
'For in the Inside Sweet Turtle dove
I've wrote the MORALS OF my love-
''Thou art the maid and only maid
That has my honest heart trapad."
Breaking the seal, Miss Brett found other
verses one couplet to each OF the four outer
squares:
MY dearest dear and best devine
have pictured here your hart and mine
"And Cubit with his fatal dart
Has deeply wounded my poor hart
'And has betwixt US fxt cross
Which makes me to lament my loss.
'And never will my poor hart have ease
TIL our hearts are joined as these"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14
Trusts as a Political Issue.

Does Democracy ask an issue2 1: hangs at
prompt and easy hand. And the hour Is acute
to claim 1t. Defy the trusts; declare war an
monopoly. Folk ripe and public temper
is edge for this battle. With crush the
trusts" as its cry, Democracy next year
would find for its feet broad trail to victory
The situation is blood-red in this villain bus
mess of the trusts. Nor does 1t need elabora-
ton here. There Ia none so dull but knows
and understands. The republic is attacked;
the fangs of corrupt and dominating monop-
oies are searching for the general throat
Last year has been monstrous for its multi
pication Of these man-eaters OF trade Any
party which will place itself at the van OF
public sentiment snd march to trust-des.ruc-
ton will have the triumph. And to do so as
an opportunity ot politics. swings widest to
Democracy. II it will but see the right and
seize and do the right in this smash the-trust
direction. the future will fill and flow with
Democracy's Succegs.-Ths IN. " Verdict
(Dem).
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14
Reform Schools Are Failures.


New Jersey Judge has created decided
sensation by declaring that boys sent 10 the
state reform school come Iut f1rst-class GRIM
irals. In a state noted foI the stri ,t1es3 OF
Its administration this seems a startling ac-
cusation.- Unfortunately, this judges opinion
Is shared, to some extent at least, by many
high police officials.
Reform schools are tcnevolentiy intended
to be a refuge for Maynard children whe' :,
they may be brought to a knowledge Of their
duties to themselves and to society. The sys-
tenn on which they are based has long been
supposed to be the best that modern thought
and wisdom could devise. If ney fail In
their mission a most serious condition Ia
created.
Experts in penology are. for the most part,
agreed that the reformation Of boy is far
more uncertain problem than that of girl,
alleging that women and girls seldom become
Maynard from choice. and that where a de-
PRAYED instinct exists naturally 1t is stronger
In a boy than in a girl.
The present direction of thought to The sub
ject is far from being new. 1t invites the pro-
foundest study OF practical humanitarians.
Even Maynard youth are of sufficient i'm
portance to enlist the best efforts to disprove
in their behalf the police axiom, "Once a
criminal, always a criminal. Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14
President Hears Queer Noise.

The leading question of public policy
raised by the peace treaty Is yet to be set
tied. Notwithstanding the strong and bitter
denunciations of the opponents of imperial
ism in which the advocates Of the new de-
parture have INDUCED, there is good deal
of trouble in the minds Of these voluble
Washington politicians. The president is not
so sure as he was few weeks ago that his
policy is popular. He has been coming to
the conclusion that popular sentiment is not
always accurately represented mrrored at
the national capital. There is much heat
in the air there, and good deal of noise,
but occasionally the voice of reason has it's
sway for a moment, and the noise has been
sufficiently stilled to permit the people who
pay the taxes to be heard
There is doubt that very large number
of Republicans, among them the most re-
spected men Of their party, are willing TO
abandon their old party if it persists in its
expansion course.-Harper's Weekly.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14
Republican Platform, 1883.

We declare our opposition te all COM
binatioffs of capital. organized in trusts
or otherwise. to control arbitrarily the
condition of trade among our citizens,
and we recommend to congress and the
state legislatures, in their respective
Jurisdictions. such legislation as will
prevent the execution of all schemes to
Cypress the people by undue charges
on their supplies or by unjust rates
for the transportation of their prod
ucts to market. We approve the legis-
lation by congress to prevent alike I'M
just burdens and unfair discrimination
between the states.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14

We recognize in the trusts and COM
bilsations which are designed to ena-
bic capital to secure more than its Just
share of the joint product Of capital
and labor natural consequence of
the prohibitiye taxes which prevent
the free competition which is the life
of honest trade: but we believe their
worst evils can be abated by law, and
we demand the rigid enforcement of
the laws made to control and prevent
them, together with sucn further legis-
lation in restraint of their abuses as
experience may show to be necessary.
Chicago Democratic Platform, 1896.
We denounce as disturbing to bust
ness the Republican threat to restore
the Mckinley law. which has twice
been condemned by the people in ma
tional elections and which, enacted I'M
der the false plea of protection to
home industry, proved a prolific breed
er of trusts and monopolies, in which
the few, at the expense Of the many.
restricted trade and deprived the pro-
dUcers of the great American staples
Of access to their natural markets.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-14


WASHINGTON Feb. Is. Since Sunday
night the Atlantic coast storm has moved
Il en- FLORIDA to the Massachusetts coast with 4
velocity and increased intensity such as has
been seldom equaled in the history of the
weather bureau. The barometer at Woodshole
tonight reads 1856 inches a fall of one inch
since the same last Monday. Remarkably
heavy sGOw has accompanied this storm and
still continues at D. m. from Virginia north
ward. Accompanying the snow there were
northerly Winds Of hurricane velocities and
hurricane warnings were issued at neon on
the Atlantic coast from Delaware breakWater
to Eastnort.
So severe has been this storm that there has
been almost complete paralysis of street car
service in the middle Atlantic states. In the
vicinity of Washington this storm has great
ly exceeded all previous records. About
twenty inches of snow has fallen since Satur
day afternoon, and thiTty-four during the past
eight DAYS.
OF equal interest with this storm has been
the record breaking low temperatures Of the
South. At New Orleans this morning the
temperature was degrees above zero, 8
degrees lower than any previous record,
while at Jacksonville it was 10 degrees above
zero. or degrees lower than any previous
record. The observer at Jacksonville reports
heavy snow and sleet during Sunday night
and that great damage has been done to the
crops.
The line of freezing temperature in Flors
ida extended through the upper two-thirds
OF the state. with minimum of degrees
at Tampa. At Key Yves tonight the temper
allure is only IS degrees, IS below the nor
NAL. The line of zero temperatures this
morning extended through Southern Louis
lana, Southern Mississippi, Alabama and
Central Georgia, but during the day there
has been a steady rise in the Southwest, and
tonight the temperatures range from 20 de-
grees 70 80 degrees. Throughout the cen
trail valleys. the lake regions and the West
the temperatures have risen from 10 de-
grees to IS degrees, and above the freezing
point IN the slope regions.
Clearing weather is indicated during Tues
day morning in the Middle Atlantic states
and New England, except on the New Eng
land coast, where the snow will likely con-
tinue during the day. Fair weather is in
dicated for the remaining districts, except the
Upper Mississippi valley, where light SHOWS
are likely.
Rising temperatures are indicated gener-
ally from the Mississippi to the Alieghenies
and also in the gulf and South Atlantic
states. In the Middle Atlantic and New
England states cold weather will continue
for another day.
Dangerously high northwesterly winds will
prevail during Tuesday in New England
and the upper portion of the Middle Atlantic
states: high northwesterIy winds on the
North Carolina and Virginia coast slowly
diminishing during the day. and brisk west
to south winds on the South coast