The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-06


can promise for the future CLOSING
words of Gov Linds speech accepting
the denomination for governor, deliy-
cred Sept s, 1900 Can any Republican
say that John Lind has not faithfully
and efficiently filled the high Office OF
chief executive of Minnesota?
The paramount issue after today:
The ne turkey now doth pine and pine
And wipe, hIs gIweeping eye,
F or well hey kgpws that he will be
Inc 'ssueS bss and by
Today, NoM is the anniversary of
the death inT-tfe battle of Lutzen, in
I6S2, Of GustavdS Adolphus, king OF
Sweden NAPOLEON, good judge, placed
GustaVus among the eight great cap
talns OF the world, a list of warriors
which began with Alexander and ended
with himself With small means Gus
taVus was caIedsto do much, and genius
eked out thee deficiency. By the stern
est discipline and original organization
tactlcs and strategy he made a small host
perform the services of mighty one,
and III the process reconstructed the art
of war. Medieval routine vanished under
his blows, and modern military science
may be said to date from his practice,
His was a brief but brilliant career, be-
ing killed in his hirty-eighth year.
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There appears to be nothing under
the sun in these prediction days for
which the Dominion government s not
held responsible. Victoria (B. Co. Times.
About so, too, on this side of the line
The ms says everything is all right
as it is, but if the outs get in, then
everything will go to smash.
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In 1878 the people of Porto Rico, by pop
ular vote, appropriated $12,000,C00 to buy
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held in that island. This was a deed
worthy of the highest triumph of Chris
tan civilization anywhere. There was no
tumult or bloodshed. The United States
waged the greatest war of the century to
put down slavery In its territory, ana
when Porto Rico came to US we said the
people were not capable of self-govern-
ment, and sent over lot of officials from
this country and denied the island the
common rights of an American commune
ty by putting tariff On goods coming and
going. Under Spanish control Porto Rico
had free trade with Cuba and Spain, had
twenty representatives in the Spanish
cortes, pro rata representation, as In
Spain itself, and enjoyed local govern
ment. Now they have no free trade with
any country, no local government, and are
to have one non-yoting delegate in con-
gress. This is the tbenevolent a=sini!a-
ton of the Republican administration
in the interest of the sugar and tobacco
trusts, and a few persons who wan jobs
from the president at the expense of a
subject people,.
Capt.. G. w. Brandle and Lieut. A. 9.
Perkins, of tie Twenty seventh regiment,
in the Philippines were recently tried and
found guiltys,of -torturing Filipino prison.
ers, and We're farcically sentenced to be
reprimanded, or in other wo-1 Is, were
led Ky 0Hi
told not to do it again.
The passenger in the sleeping car
awakened by the stopping of the train
pushed aside the blind and looked out
'Blitz & Sghratz, 'Kumpff & Denner-
wetter, 'SeitligeE & Knopff, leopold &
Schwaftzenheimer,' he said, reading the
business signs that met his eye 'eWelI,
l see We've got to Milwaukee. Chicago
Tribune
THE primal duty of Americans is
never to forget that men are more than
nations; that wisdom is more than glory.
and virtue more than dominion Of tie
sea- The nation exists for it's men,
never its men for the nation And
the will of freemen to be just toward one
another is. our best guarantee that gov
eminent of the people. for the people, by
the people, shall not perish from the face
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Today, Nov 6, is the anniversary of the
birth, in 1888, OF James Gregory, a .ccie-
brated Scotch scientist-inventor Of the
rejecting telescepe-a member of a fam
lily of whom sixteen members held pro-
fessorships in British schools; of Sarah
Moore GrinalSe, in 1892, noted early.
American lecturer on anti-slavery and
social equality topics; of C. c. FELTON,, in
1907, distinguished American scholar.
author and d. Harvard professor.
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That good Republican papers the Port
land Oregonian, fires this last shot: 1.-THE
Hon. Mark Hanna is profoundly soici-
tous; however, not SO much tiRt the Nc
ktnley dynasty might be overthrown as
that Hanna mightscease to be prime min
ister -
There are now about $4,000 troops In
the Philippines The war department. has
decidedsto commence the homeward move
ment of the volunteer troops about the
middle of this month. It will take practi-
cally all of the transport service at the
command of the department to accom-
pllsh the return of the 10000 volunteers
between now and June 80 of next year
wien their term Of service expires by
operation of law.
Investigate shows that there are a.
Sood many prisoners In the convict
camps of Georgia who have been detained
at hard labor under brutal conditions Ter
years after the expiration of their SEN
fences. At one camp three persons were
found who had been detained eight wears
who were not convicts, but had been run
In by overseers and kept at work for
eight years, without pay or chance to ex-
plain to the authorities Always under
guard, it was almost sure death to at
tempt to escape. Nearly all the South
ern States farm convicts out, and condi-
tons under which they live and labor are
often very inhuman. There is a chance
down there for little of the benevolence
we seem so anxious to extend to the peo-
pie of foreign lands. And the brutality is
not all in the South