The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-26


tarlif protection, what kind of a fix would
the administration be in? 1t would prob
ANY discover some things it ought to
nave thought of long before It would
discover complications over ignorant .citi-
zehshlp' cheap labor and other embarass-
ing questions, not compatible with popu-
lar government.
O.
The c. B. & O. has issued orders that
employees must moi. use liquors, nor visit
saloons Whlle on duty, and prohibition of
TOBACCO IS also included in depots and on
passenger trains. This was the result
The Bldweu Bros. were trying to bring
ABOUT, When death suddenly ended their
career at Butte, Mont.
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Inc wreck of the Maine is to be re-
moved from Havana harbor, and con-
tractors will not be allowed to use ex-
PIoslVes. There is a desire on the part
OF the naval authorities to know whether
the plates of the hull are bent in or out.
oupposlng they are found to be bent out I?
w en the examination was originally
il1de' unoer water, Spain was refused
cnance 10 Join In the investigation. 1t was
on account OF the destruction of the Maine
lnat we went to war. If it is really found
that the hull plate is bent outward. In
what position morally would this country
stdho! II would require apologies, resti-
tutlon and admissions of immature haste
And would we give up Porto Rico. Cuba.
and the philippines? Or would we say
what is, is?
Today, Nov 26, is the anniversary OIL the
birth, in 1871, of William Cowper, one of
the most eminent and popular of English
poets. his poem entitled, 1.-The Task,
is PROBABLY one of the most popular of its
length III the language, while his version
OF Homer" is, perhaps, the best ever
made. This is also the birthday anniver-
sary of 0. B. rockingham, in 1922, an
eloquent American Unitarian divine.
Honesty is hard policy" according
to Harold Martin, in a letter to the New
York Independent on 1.-The Military Gov
eminent of Manila" He makes revela-
ton to the effect that the American Off
c1al IS not SO tremendously superior to
his Spanish predecessor in honesty and
incorruptbility as we had expected. The
natives have been taught corruption by
the Spaniards. To give them chance
to run affairs they will practice that to
which they have long submitted. To cor
rect this will be matter of education
and not force. 1t cannot be done in day,
a year or a generation. Very American
official must come in contact with ve-
nality, impressed by hundreds of years of
corrupt public service. He may recoiI
at first, but familiarity breeds indiffer-
enee. He is far from the home govern
ment at Washington. Human nature
is the same the world over. First the
evil atmosphere, then the temptation, and
then the fall After this the descent is
easy, and some day. perhaps, an Ameri-
can Macaulay will be called upon to
write the life of an American Warren
Hastings"
1t was on Nov. 26, 177S that Capt Cook
discovered what IS now one of our Pacific
ocean possessions-the Sandwich, or the
Hawaiian islands. And the natives dis
covered Cook-ald killed him.
English horsemen7 have discovered that
the American trainers and Jockeys
brought with them "a knowledge Of the
use of drugs and mechanical appliances
to accelerate or deaden the speed of
horses, which has been the practice in
this country for long time The result
is that the American jockey is not as
popular as he was.