The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-29

from bakeries, which amounted last year
~ $S,OOO,O00.
The following paragraph Is going the
rounds of the Washington papers pub
lished outside or the rivals: "The cities
OF Seattle and Tacoma have resumed
their warfare over the proper desIgna-
ton of the mountain peak which DOM
mates both cities. Seattle insists on
Rainier, while Tacoma, as is quite
natural, is steadfast for Tacoma The
row Is chronic ore and breaks out
when the denizens of the two towns take
brief vacation from their ordinary and
customary occupation Of robbing East
ern people who are foolish enough TO
trust themselves in the Puget Sound
country"
A Russian, whose name is hard to pro-
nounce, is visiting this country to study
conditions. In an interview the other day
he said: You step forward rapidly. 1t
is a serious time with you. Everything
is changing. The trusts will absorb the
government or the government will have
to absorb the trusts. Trusts are the
outcome of the tendencies of the time.
There is just as much sense in denounc-
ing the weather as the trusts The peo-
ple are the government, and the drift
is toward Socialism, an American So
cialism, but what 1t will be no one can
say"
Gen. Funston is now the logical can
didate for vice president on the Roose-
welt ticket In 1904. 1t will make heroic
combination. The hero of the Cuban
war in the White house and the hero
of the Philippines presiding over the
United States senate The trfckster.
When in business on the street
Is confronted with contempt
When disguised in soldiers dress
He gains applause at each attempt
Extracts from European papers recently
printed in the Literary Digest show
alarm at the growing commercial impor-
lance of the United States English pa
pers say that Americans are making in
roads into territory heretofore solely
British. The same complaint is made in
Germany and France. One cause of hard
times in Germany, according to the an
nual report of the Berlin Society of Mer-
chants, is the specter Of American COM
petition In European markets" The
Vienna Tageblatt Is reported as saying
that owing to the almost intolerable bur
den of taxation imposed on Europe by
militarism America whose national
wealth shows enormous and steady in
crease, is gradually becoming the creditor
Of the whole world, and that within
well as Australia, Japan and China will
be her debtors If they do not take precau-
lions In time to prevent themselves from
falling into a state of economic depend
ence upon the new commercial world
power
Some freak scientist has discovered that
books in the public libraries are full OF
disease-breeding germs and Carnegie
goes right on aiding in the spread of
deadly microbes.
l. Justice Brewer, in recent address on
the abuses Of the jury system, said: LAS
at present administered, it is little less
than relic of a semi arbarous age. The
| juror is treated little better than a GRIM
tnal. He is locked up at night and is
given little more pay than q day laborer
He is compelled to listen to the wrangle
Of lawyers. 1 hope that the time will
come when the juror will be treated like
a man, when he will receive the pay of
business man. I also hope that the
present system Of conviction will give
way to one in which the concurrence of a
reasonable number of jurors shall deter
mine the verdict" He calls attention to
the treatment Of witnesses, which is
more grievous and outrageous abuse than
the treatment of jurors. He says: "It
is one of the duties Of American citizen
ship to perform the duties Of witness
when summoned into court although In
the present system the witness is treated
like liar and is browbeaten by oppos-
ing lawyers
The early name of the family from
which Queen Victoria descended was Jo-
seph Guelph, and that of her husband
was Victim. In private life she would
have been Mrs. Victim, but kings and
queens nowadays drop their family
names: .tiS.- ~ E e. >s
Rev. Charles w. Wood, professor in
Booker Washington's college at Tuskegee,
Ala, was once a bootblack in Chicago
Washington himself was born a slave.
o.
The Jewish novelist Zangwil1, in a re-
cent book hits off the display in the
English house of lords: What is the
house Of lords but a monkey house-all
these brand new peers, these brewers and
bankers, aping the old feudaI lords MIN
licking their medieval militarism?"
Today, March 20, is the anniversary of
the birth. in 1880, Of John Tyler, tenth
president, succeeding to the presidency
in 1S41, on the death Of Harrison At the
opening of the Civil war he took sides