The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-28

looks upon our show In the Philip
pines in the same light, but is going to
be bitterly disappointed at our evident
desire to remain at peace with Russia.
England gave us bad counsel over the
Philippines and will give bad counsel
bad for America-every time.
CANADA'S DEFENSE.
Yesterday 1 cabled about the move
ment here to fortify Canada. A few
scattering kilograms have been pub
lished heretofore, but nothing to indi-
cate the serious thought being given
to the subject. 1t is proposed to quiet
ly and Systematically get Canada into
some kind of shape to offer defense in
case of trouble. 1 suppose that, If
Johnnie Hay cabled about this to some
| of his London pals, he would receive
smooth and suave assurances to the
| contrary. and our polished little state
secretary would believe every word.
| Hay and Woodford ought to go to-
gether. If we had Woodford for
Hays assistant, we should be what
| the cow-puncher would call the top
of the bunch''
| You can put it down as a fact, how
ever, that England intends to fortify
| Canada, and it is not on account Of
her differences with France over the
| Newfoundland fisheries. Whether a
| lobster is a fish has nothing to do with
! 1t. Until after the Paris exposition
! next year, France will give England
! everything she wants, except possibly
| the exposition, and Canada will not cut
any Ice in an Anglo-French war, any
way.
| The truth simply is that, after Queen
! Victoria dies, there will be more ac-
tive movement all round to see which
is the better fellow, John Bull or I'm
Gle Sam. The two nations are natural
rivals and hereditary enemies, and all
| the guSh of sentimentalists will not
| alter the facts. England feels that,
with the aid of America, she can hold
| Canada and her other possessions,
dominate China and bottle up Russia.
And with all her bluster about not
needing lfelp, this British nation knows
better than any nation on earth. ex-
cept Russia, her own isolated position
without American support. Russia
knows the game, however, and this is
why always before Russia the lions
tail seems to be pretty close to the
| ground.
What rather staggers England today
is the fact that the American people
| are sitting tight and do not propose
| to give England one little inch This
fact is as true as gospel and as clear
as daylight
LABOR TROUBLES.
| Already the manufacturers are get
| ting together here to make one great
| effort to get the upper hand of labor.
| The labor organizations have discour-
| aged Individual effort and made it i'm
possible for many manufacturers to
compete with foreign goods even in the
| home market few weeks ago.
| therefore, the manufacturers began to
| get together, and we shall one day see
the outcome. Certain it is that social
ism among the laboring classes has
developed to such an extent that it
| doesn't work This is as Herbert Spen-
! GER predicted, but there may be forth
| coming a solution of the problem that
will be for the good of both capitalist
and laborer.
| An American friend Of mine recently
contracted to have his offices painted.
|
two or three grades Of laborers. Seeing
| two men idle who had been cleaning
eff the old paint the boss ordered them
to take brushes and paint the inside
of dark closet. Immediately all the
others struck, claiming that a cleaner
| had no right to use a brush. The
| matter was carried up to the labor
union, which upheld the strikers, and
the contractor was boycotted until he
repented and agreed to be good in fu-
| ture.
Another friend in chambers wanted
a new bath tub. In the middle of the
lob the. men struck because one man
did sCme work others claimed. The
| contractor was blamed in this instance
also. and it was weeks before my
friend got his tub.
These are trivial incidents and may
possibly be familiar to many OF The
Clio b e's readers, but they illustrate
one of the chief reasons Americans can
undersell this market. The same idea
prevails everywhere. The housemaid
is engaged and protected by contract
and will not do any part of the work
of the cook Everybody employed is
based on custom or the rulings Of some
organization, and 1T makes little diff
ference whether the contract be writ
ten or not The shipping clerk will see
goods rot before he will help to load
them on a wagon, the coachman will
not do the work of a groom, and the
whole outfit from top to bottom is
muscle-bound with red tape.
Tn America If what I call my coach
man seems to have time on his hands
I let him try his hand at beating car
pet or raking leaves or painting gut
ters on the roof. He Is an Engl1Shman,
and it has taken him several years to
get used to this sort of clubbing, but
am free to admit that from his point
of view the whole thing is simply
laughable. Still, he has in some way q
don't know how accumulated a home
of his own, and he couldn't have done
it in England in lifetime. These lit
tie things teach their lessons, and from
them labor unions can learn much. A
laborer's best union is in his home and
his Willingness to work for that home
The Lonlon "cabbies" have just
given little exhibition of horse sense
The police, acting under an old for
gotten law, ruled the lettering cabs off
several main arteries unless they went
| through on q trot. Up went a how
from the organization to which the
cab drivers belong; the city was threat
ened with a cab strike, and a great
rumpuS generally was on foot The ma
jority of the cabbies, however, good
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