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

words of Gov. Lind's speech accepting
the denomination for governor, daliv-
cred Sept. 6, 1900 Can any Republican
say that John Lind has not faithfully
and efficiently filled the high Office OF
chief executive of Minnesota?
O.
Inc paramount issue after today:
me tuIkeM now doth pine and pine
ana wipe ms weeping eye,
or or well hes Knows that he will be
Inc 7ssues By and by
Today, NoM s. is the anniversary of
the death in the battle of Lutzen, in
1852, of GusEaviis Adolphus, king of
sweden. NAPOLEON, good judge, placed
GustaVus among the eight great cap
talns OF the world, a list of warriors
winch began with Alexander and ended
with himself. With small means Gus
taVus was called to do much and genius
eked out the deficiency By the stern
est discipline and original organiza ton
tactlcs and strategy he made a small host
perform the services of mighty one,
and III the process reconstructed the srt
OF war. Medieval routine vanished under
his blows, and modern military silence
may be said to date from his practice,
His was a brief but brilliant career, DC
ing killed in his thirty-eighth year
There appears to be nothing under
the sun in these prediction days for
which the Dominion government IS not
held responsible. Victoria (B. c. 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.
In 1878 the people of Porto Rico, by pop
ular vote, appropriated $12,00OC00 to buy
the freedom of the remaining $4,000 slaRes
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 a lot of officials from
this country and denied the island the
common rights Of an American commun1-
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-voting delegate in con-
gress. This is the benevolent a<simila-
ton" of the Republican admfnistra ton
trusts, and few persons who wan jobs
from the president at the expense of a
Subject people,.
Capt G. W. sBrandle and Lieut. A. 8.
Perkins, of tie Twenty regiment,
in the Philippines, were recently tried and
found guilty of ~torturing Filipino prison.
ers, and were farcically sentenced to be
reprimanded, or, in other woc is, were
SP0I6A6 fba
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 & Donner-
Wetter 'SchiigeI & Knopff,' Leopold &
SchwartzenhGimer, > he said, reading the
business signs that met his eye ''Well,
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 3omtnton Of the
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
of the earth.-David Starr Jordan.
Today, Nov. s, is the anniversary of the
birth, in $685. Of James Gregory. a cole
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 Grinl1e, in 1892, noted early
American lecturer on anti-slavery and
social equality topics; of c. G. FELTON,, in
lSol, a distinguished American scholar,
author and Harvard professor.
That good Republican paper.@the Port
land Oregonian, fires this last shot; 1.-THE
Hon. Mark Hanna is profoundly solici-
tous; however not so much t.Hst the Nc
Kinley dynasty might be overthrow as
that Hanna mightscease to be prime min
ister.'
There are now about $4,000 troops in
the Philippines. The war department has
decided to commence the homeward move
ment Of the volunteer troops about the
middle of this month. It will take practt-
caIly all of the transport service at the
command of the department to accom-
plish the return of the 10000 volunteers
between now and June 80 of next year.
wien their term Of service expires nv
operation of law
1hEeSuSatlon SHOWS that there are a
good many prisoners in the convict
camps of Georgia who have been detained
at hard labor under brutal conditions frr
years after the expiration of their sen
fences. At one camp three persons were
found who had been detained eight years
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, 1t was almost sure death to at
tempt to escape Nearly all the South
ern States farm convicts out, and condf-
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