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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-02
SOUND ANTITRUST DOCTRINE.

There is vofume Of sturdy, thought
full Independence about the utterances
of Carter H. Harrison, mayor of Chicago.
on the trust question, as delivered by
him in an address of welcome to the re-
cent antitrust conference held in the ILL
comments of Mayor Harrison on the
trust question might be accepted by par
tisans as partisan campaign talk, Mr..
Harrison's views are broad enough to i'm
press his hearers with the belief that
sufferers from trust oppression are not
a political element In any sense. There
is something that appeals forcibly to
every individual who is not a trust bene-
ficiary in the following extract from
Mayor Harrison's speech:
40 my mind the greater danger Of the
trusts is the damage they. do to the
young manhood of the nation, in that
they kill off all stimulus to ambition.
The existence of the trusts robs the youth
of the nation Of the power to place HIM
self on an equal footing with every
other young American, of the power to
reach those heights in the business, So
cial or political world which his mental
ability and physical powers entitle him
to reach.
What has made America great in the
past is the fact that our system of gov
ernnlent has given each and every cit
izen an equal opportunity to aspire to
any office within the gift of the people.
1t was this opportunity that caused nil
lions of foreign-born citizens to come to
these shores in search of new homes.
They have come in search Of freedom
of life and Of conscience. Each, desires to
gain a competence for himself and at the
same time to have the assurance that his
children after him will be able TO look
the whole world fairly and squarely in
the face and aspire with an equal chance
to attainment to any honor in the gift
of the republic.
IF the trusts are to continue to exist,
growing stronger and more dangerous,
as they certainly will, from day to day.
1t does not require the eye of a prophet
to see that this power, which has made
American manhood great, will fade away
and that your children and my children
instead of possessing the opportunity to
work out a strong and noble future for
themselves, will be reduced to the neces-
sity of serving as the clerks and en-
ployeS OF a comparatively limited num-
Der of millionaires.
Mr.. Harrison is not without experience
of practical kind in dealing with trusts,
| and his opinions are entitled to consid-
Grafton from that standpoint The Re-
publican party organization in Cook coun-
ty and Illinois, with which he has done
political battle, is dominated by the in
forcefuIlY.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-02
SMART SHORT STORIES.

Ihe recent tragedy i'll Kentucky has
brought Col Jack Chinn once more into
prominence. He was with Gov. Goebel
when the latter was shot and the Chicago
Chronicle says, disdaining the stream of
bullets which continued to come from
that mysterious window in the state
house, he leaned over and ministered to
the wants OF his friend. Col. Chinn, is
known all over the United States as one
of the best race starters in the country
ana as man of unquestioned personal
courage.
Col. Jack Chinn's knife" murder
ous-looking blade, is also pretty well
known. 1t IS said that Chinr never per-
mlts this weapon to leave his possession
Several years ago Col. Chinn visited
Texas. He took with him negro valet
Sam. This negro had been a slave In the
fhinn family before the war and idolized
his young master. One night while in
Houston, Tex, the darky went to Chinn
and said: d
NASSAU Jack, Use goin' out In cullud
society heah tonigt an I'd like to borrow
dat ivory handled six-shooter of yours to
take along" Il -
why, you black rascal" returned the
colonel, some of these Houston coons
will take that gun away from you and
break it over your Head
The darkey Strengthened up. Like his
master, he was man of unquestioncd
nerve, and there was a peculiar glitter in
his eye rs he said:
NASSAU Jack, you let me hab dat gun
an II I don't Show sup -hea,h Wild it in dc
mawnin' you go down to de morgue an
throw down de sheet an say: 'Lawd!
don't he look nacherl "
Col. Cllinn's body servant was that
night armed In a manner that entitled
him to move in the best circles of Afro
American society In Houston.
=
remember distinguished public man,
says Sir Wemyss Reid. in the Nineteenth
Century who has risen high in the
service of the state relating to me a little
experience of his own. On the day on
which lie first entered certain govern
ment office as a junior clerk he was the
witness of a scene that filled him with
amaZement.ip An elderly man who was
seated at another desk in the same room
suddenly re Sc from his seat, dragged his
chair to the fireplace, and, setzing the
poker, attacked the offending piece OF
furniture with what seemed to be mania
cal fury. When he had broken a leg off
the chair his passion seemed to be ex-
hausted. He flung the damaged seat into
q corner of the room, and getting another
chair, calmly resumed his work as though
nothing mad happened. My friend on
leaving mis- work that afternoon ventured,
with the hesitation of a novice, to ask
another clerk who had been a witness OF
the scene what 1T meant. rs Mr. X
subject to attacks of this kind?" he ask
ed MIR X-!' was the response.
There was nothing the matter with him.
You see, enc of the casters had come off
his chair, and the treasury won't replace
casters; they zwill repair nothing less
serious than a. broken leg. So he broke
one of the legs, and now he will get the
caster put OH again. This story is not
merely ben troxato=-it Is absolutely true,
and it throws flood of light upon treas
llrv methods and traditions.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-02
WAR TAXES ON THE CLASSES AND
THE MASSES.

An effort is being made to secure the
some of the war revenue taxes. but it
may be accepted as a fact that these
taxes, with their odious, cumbersome and
annoying accompaniment of multitude
come to stay for the next ten years. at
least.
AS might be expected from a Repub-
lican congress. the proposition for the
repeal of some of these war taxes does
not include any measure for the relief of
a suffering public. Certain large and In
fluendal interests of the country are
alone TO be considered, but where the
people have to buy the revenue stamps
and do the licking there will be no change
proposed.
Therefore. it is stated by Washington
advices only those taxes which are OBJ
noxieus to large corporate interests are
to be repealed. For instance, Represent
ative Hopkins of Illinois, a member of
the ways and means committee of the
house is quoted as expressing the opin-
ion that his committee should go through
the law and select some of the most
burdensome features and those most
troublesome to administer and repeal
them.
81 consider the taxes on proprietary
medicines in this class" said Mr.. Hop
klns, land believe they should be the
first to be done away with"
Now, the actual amount of tax ON
single packet of proprietary medicine is
Internationally a fraction Of cent
so that the burden Is not noticed by the
purchasing public in cases where the tax
Is added to the sale price. The retail
druggist is a sufferer, of course, and he
has the sympathy of a public that suffers
from similar infections. The tax on these
medicines is no doubt serious burden
to the large proprietors, who may be
compelled to affiX stamps to vast quaint
ties of their goods, but there is probably
no article so we'll able to bear the war
tax and pay 1t from it's profits as
patent medicine; and, further, the patent
medicine firms are but a class and not
very large class. among the merchants
and manufacturers of the United States,
and there is no valid reason why they
should receive special privileges and ex-
emptions from taxation. Those war
taxes which the general public are COM
peled to pay are the only really obnox-
ious forms of this class Of taxation and
should first be removed before any propo-
sition for the removal of taxes in special
lines of business are considered.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-02
HE SHOULD SEEK sHE1.rEn

Speaker Henderson evidently feels very
publican associates in the house have as
sumed His attempts at justification
have all the earmarlSs of the intense men
tai excitement of their author. He feels
that he and they have been misunder-
stood on the troublesome subject of that
Puerto Rico tariff and ne appears to have
resorted somewhat freely to the epis-
tolary way out of the difficulty.
There is nothing especially convincing
in what the speaker has said in his pub
lished correspondence with his friends
He is the victim of misunderstanding
That is the beginning and the ending of
his pleas. He and his imperialist friends
are the only real friends the Puerto
Ricans have in this country; the only
enemies of the trusts which are seeking
to make free trade the instrument of
their greed. Every dollar filched from
these unhappy people. the victims of ruin
and devastation, will be returned to them
intact, and the national generosity which
takes with the right hand and gives back
with the left will have the amplest OPP
portunity for benefleent exercise. If only
the country will cease to be the victim
of the unjust views which prevail con-
corning the speaker and his friends.
Tt is an old trick. this claiming that the
victim is having something grand done
for him while he is being fieeced. 1t is
the prime art of the confidence man. 1t
does not appear to be resorted to by
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-02
APRIL FOOLS DAY.

written for the Globe.)
Talk about yer Chris masses
Fourth o. Julys and cirkuSseS-
They amt in it for the real fun
That's to be had on April one;
Even Halloween is very tame
To April first-that Is T yer game.
I think that April first must be
Ind pendence Day fer kids like me-,
When we kin play all sorts of Jokes
And not be punished by our folks
Though pa, he says, in a threat min way:
"Bill, no nonsense from you today!
When Jim's pants legs are found sewed
up;
When ma of coffee takes a sup
And finds the sugar tastes like salt
/ say, quite innocent, ''Taint my fault =
They frown and say, half-scold, half
.This here is some of Willie's chaff."
The teacher has her troubles too
(You know what mischeevous boys can
But when I hollered april Fool!'
She kept me in long after school.
I didn't care much for l knew
She wasn't game-like me or you.
Say, you look as though you might
Know how a boy d feel at night,
AS though big days work was done,
And how h'd fooled EN- all-cept one
For pa. he'd said to me, one side,
'eDon't We fool Me, r I'll tan yer hide!'
Will E. Cowles.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-02

MIN Dy strangulation, so powerful Is he
In his wrists. Ronjarre is as tender In
MS love Tor his wife, Henriette as he Is
vindlctive and passionate toward man.
Remorse for his crime impels, him to re-
nounce his wife and thus save her from
dlssrace. But she learns all and still
chngs to her husband. When Ronjarre
IS nnany captured the shock kills Hen
T1ette. For the mar who betrayed him
hon1arre now feels but the bitterest hat
req and vows to kill him. He succeeds
IN this at the masquerade ball at the
gardens or the notorious La Mabille, but
not until his victim has fatally shot him.
lhe termination of the play Is fittingly
called THE Wages Of Sim
The people with "The Grip of STEEP
are fairly good. James Gordon, who plays
RonJarre, is an actor of magnificent
physique and excellent elocution. His
abilities should not be measured by the
opportunities furnished by the play.
The Pere Gandelu of John e. Hynes
was really artistic He appears to more
favorable advantage perhaps because he
Is seen only in thes first act and before
Inc play has drifted into the quagmire
or inconsistency. Frank M. Allen as Tab
eret, Al Kranz as Michael Malloney and
Laurence Merton as Toto Biggs. have
considerable comedy business on their
hands, which they manage to dispose Of
effectively
Miss Florence st. Leonard carries the
part of Henriette, the blind wife of Gas
ton, with commendable pathos and ex-
preston Miss Ella Harmon as Mathilde
Haudry is satisfactory and does not over
act. Miss Lois Jaynes es Clarisse Is a
p1quant soubrette, with commendable
elocution.
The Grip of Steel will be seen all the
week, with Wednesday and Saturday
matinees.
Fun and music will reign supreme at
the Grand opera house the coming week,
when THE Hottest Coon in Dixie" will
hold the stage.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-02
TodaY'g Attractions at
81, Paul Retail Stores,

, to the alright and 'waukeezy"
shoes.
L. B. MEYROwITZ says he makes best
spectacles and eyeglasses.
H. STEIN & co. offer a long list of
representative low prices on notions, jack
cts, etc.
RANSOM Sc HORTON urge intending
purchasers of suits or jackets TO buy this
week, as every one can't be waited on
the week before Easter.
o.
WILLIAM SCHAUER will continue his
great closing-out sale this week
STRONGE MILLINERY co. advise PEG
pie to watch for announcement or Lnetr
spring opening.
SMITH & FAREWELL co. want people
to inspect the handsome new furniture
they are showing.
THE PALACE CLOTHING HOUSE
offer 5000 extremely fashionable 1900 fad
cheviot suits for children, boys and young
men.
wALLBIIOM quotes some 'Elephantine
Bargains" in furniture for this week.
THE PALACE FURNITURE AND
CARPET co. give some sound reasons
why they can sell cheaper than others.
ST. PAUL HOUSEFURNISHIN co.
have received their new spring stock and
give many leaders
THE AMERICAN HOUSEFURNISH-
ING co. have long list of bargains in
furniture.
THE NORTH STAR announce a grand
bicycle opening with music for Monday
evening.
LENNON & GIBBONS display a most
attractive line of mems and boys spring
suits and overcoats.
THE STANDARD offer number Of
leaders for cash purchasers
a ENTERPRISE CLOTHING co. in or
der to give those chance who were UNI
able to buy Saturday will continue OPEN
ing prices this week.
NEW YORK CANDY STORE have a
large variety of Easter eggs.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-02
BOOM IN AMERICANS.
london Begins to Appreciate the
Financial Activity Here.

london Begins to Appreciate tho
Financial Activity Here.
LONDON, April 1.-The stock excbane,.
was generally firm last week, particularly
IN the speculative markets, with Interest,"
centering mainly in Americans. which
were more active than they have been for
many years. The operators have been
WORKING hard recently for this boom, ana
Berlin and continental investors are now
beginning, although tardily, to appreciate
the change in the financial status of the
United States.
Baltimore & Ohio leads the list with 81
rise OF ~ points, and all the more active
stocks nave shown an increase of from
3 to points since the last 'carry-over
Owing to the university boat race tba
attendance yesterday was small. but this
did not weaken the market Americana
closed better all along the list. Wabash
debentures rose Ia points Baltimore q
Ohio v and others from Il to 81.
Mines We're stagnant, no one caring to
operate until the advance movement Of
the British forces in South Africa. all
ready under way, gives further indica.
tons respecting the probable duration Of
the war The tendency of this marked
is downward. owing to the absence "a
support and the continental selling
Rands fell on the week rs points.
Money was In good demand until Nom
day, SA to A; for a week 3s4, and on the
three months bills from SB to per
cent.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-02

FIELD, SCILICK 81 CO. announce at
half price grand sale OF elegant
gloves, also specials on newest Silks, tail
or-made suits, Jackets, dress goods black
dress goods wash goods, underwear,
laees, petticoats, dress trimmings, sewing
silk, Innings and commence their annual
sale of lace curtains.
THE GOLDEN RULE announce great
sale of infants wear, also of silks, linens
Jackets Innings domeSticS, curtains foot
wear, wash goods, drugs, paints, men 8
wear photo goods and house furnishings,
etc.
SCHUNEMAN & EVANS will hold
Easter sales on silks. dress goods base
ment goods, suits. Jackets, linens, skirts,
wash fabrics, furnishing goods, corsets.
wall paper, furniture. draperies, curtains,
hosiery, drugs. ETC., ETC.
MANNHEIMER BROS. quote attrac-
tive prices on the newest spring silks,
dress goods. wash goods. domesticsi brio
druggists sundries, tailor-made suits,
jackets and skirts, mems furnishings, etc.
YERxA quotes tempting prices on de-
pendable table supplies.
THE LEADING BICYCLE DEALERS
handling wheels they are ready to guar Ir
antee are the BIRD CYCLE COMPANY,
JOY BROS. THOMSON & EGE. r z.
WILLIAM r. BURKHARD COMPANY.
CHASE CYCLE COMPANY, NORTH
STAR FURNITURE COMPANY, ST.
PAUL HARDWARE COMPANY F. M.
SMITH & BRO. ST. PAUL CYCLE COM
PANY.
THE BOSTON say they fit all kinds of
people in the best and latest styles of
clothing
THE FAMOUS will have their spring
display on and after next Wednesday
%
NICOLL THE TAILOR tells the con-
trast between st Paul-made and Eastern
sweat-shop garments
L. L. MAY advise sowing lawn seed
now to save sodding.
SCHULTZ WILSON MILLINERY co.
announce their opening OF superior spring
hats and bennets next Tuesday and Wed
nesday
TREADwELL SHOE co. call attention
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-02
MONDAY. APRIL 3, 1900.
FREEDOM AND FARMING.

This is the time of year when a large
number Of people are seizad with an an
nual desire to get a piece Of land and
cultivate and tickle it into farm or
garden. Every spring this delightful
weakness seizes upon most men. and
some women, and drives them to invest
in divers gorgeous-colorcd packages of
seeds, which they sedulously plant, In tn :
hope of their glorious resurrection, and.
as the boy remarked: Sometimes they
does grow and sometimes they doesn't"
Often the product of the amateurs spring
planting is nothing but disconcerting bar.
renness, but the planter planteth Just the
same, and revels in the pleasures of hope
until far into July.
This spring fever" begot OF a trans
mitted desire for close communion with
the earth, is older than the mysteries OF
Egypt. 1t sets the clerk in the city PIN
ing for the brown earth and the green
heritage, and if no broader field is afford
ed him, he will scratch up the yard behind
The dwcller in the country and those who
know the ways of rural life, and have
mastered, or think they have mastered.
the art OF agriculture. set themselves
looking for a piece of land at this time
of year, The farmer wishes to add acres
to those acres which he hath, and the
man of no acres looks around for the IN
titled land, that he may make it fer
tile.
The state Of Minnesota offers glorious
field for all who have the spring fever"
ThOusands-yes, millions Of acres of ag-
ricultural land lie vacant. awaiting an oe-
cupant. To all who wish to follow agri-
cultural pursuits no state offers such an
opportunity to follow them with comfort,
pleasure and profit as does Minnesota.
Grain, fruit and flowers can be produced
In abundance and hocks and herds have
an unlimited quantity of the finest pas
turage
Wild lands ready for the piow can be
secured from the United States govern
ment, from the state of Minnesota, from
the railroad companies owning land
grants, and from several large land ccm-
panies, at purchase price which two
years of intelligent farming will repay.
Freedom and independence await all who
are sturdy enough to take advantage of
the opportunity to go upon the land, and
In these days of sulky-plows and modern
agricultural machinery. few are too weak
physically to successfully follow agricul-
turai pursuits.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-02
BERLIN MONEY MARKET.
Settlement characterized by Unus-
uaI Carry-Over Rates.

BERLIN, April 1.-The monthly settIe-
ment was characterized by unusual carry
ever rates. dUe % ne conviction of Lead
ers that specuiNtISu has been much over
done. The correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press finds this conviction gem
eral in high financial circles, where it Is
pointed out that coal shares have risen
beyond all proportion to coal. Iron shares
are also regarded as excessively high.
considering the increase of wages and the
scarcity Of material.
Notwithstanding the rising of money
rates all last week industrial shares were
very strong and American railways In
great demand. The German public has
confidence in the continuance OF Amer
lean prosperity. The rise of London ex-
change Is explained by the heavy Ger
man purchases of Americans In London
In the money market prospects are not
encouraging. The relaxation this month
is not expected to be great The pres
sure at the Reichsbank at the end of
last week was enormous. Numerous Tnu-
nicipal, state and other loans are COM
ing up or the market soon.
BanFing circles believe that the down
ward movement in government funds has
stopped
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-02
NEW DICTIONARY
Must Be written to Meet the Re-
quirements of Imperialism.

Must Be Written. to Meet the Re-
quirements of Imperialism.
New York World. -
Imperialism has made necessary new
definitions Of sold iwerds-equally appli-
cable in England oand in this country.
For example:
Iiberty-TEe rule which strong ma
ton imposes upon a weak one.
Freedom-Sueh measure Of local self
government as a conquering nation
deems safe for it's subjects.
Ciyilization-Our way of doing things.
The constitutional rubber blanket
when the executive needs to stretch his
authority-a wooden blanket when it is
necessary to shrink it that it will not
cover island possessions.
Good Fsdth-A readiness on the part
Of the Beers, Puerto Ricans, Fiipinos
and Cubans to accept whatever the gov
ernments that have them in charge may
offer.
Benevolent Assimilation-What the
lion gives to the lamb.
Duty and Destiny-A freebooter's COM
mission.
asset. Cecil Rhodes
A new edition of the Imperial diction-
ary will be awaited with much inter-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-02

INSTRUMENTATION Acres" e:15.
GRAND-"A Grip of Steel" S:15.
PalIn Garden-Naudeville, . and s p. m.
Lowry Arcade, D. m
state board Of electricity meets, state
shelIinah Lodge No. III. A. Il. G. A M
meets, Masonic hall, South Wabasha
street, s D. m.
Paladin Commandery No. q, knights
Iemplar meets, Masonic hall. West
Fifth street, near postoffice.