The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-28

upon the American people in behalf of
duty to our new wards, who are wards
only by compulSien
20
Men who do not favor the enforcement
of all the laws should not accept office.
A4-o-
The annual report of the Massachu-
sets state board of arbitration and con-
Citation practically admits the impoten-
cy OF the voluntary System when it says
That the prevailing opinion seems to be
that arbitration is IAN excellent thing in
all quarters but ones own" Last year
only IL per cent of strikes were brought
before the board by Joint petition, and 26
per cent by the petition of one side, and
In both the board had to go out and hunt
up and beg to take part in settling the
dlfferences between employees and en-
ployers. The report says that arbitra
ton, to be effective, must be compulsory;
that society must choose between a sys-
tenn of forced interference and the pres
ent policy of permitting labor and capital
to fight out their battles in the old way,
come what may in disorder, riot, suffer
ing, bloodshed and untold loss to the
community no less than to the combat
ants.
The shirt-waist question will soon be
stirring the feminine mind Maybe some
| of the Willie boys viii try waists this
SUMMER If 1t is a warm season.
There don't seem to be such an interest
nowadays among patriots over the Gu
ban flag.
4 comp arison of the cost of the army
and naval establishments of the United
States, England, France, Russia and
Germany show that we expended last
year sum as large as the largest
amount appropriated in any European
country, and our army is the smallest
Justice Brewer recently lectured at
Yale college on the subject of reform
movements and declared spasmodic eff
forts to be useless. Among other things
he said: Il know that prohibition has
ceased to be enforced in the large cities
of the state, but Spasmodic virtue Is next
door to intentional vice. After the spasm
has passed the community will be more
Indifferent than ever, and within ten
years it will be worse than it was at
first. Another matter which IL
Illustrates both the spirit and result of
disobedience, and which is blot on our
national life, is the frequency Of lynch
law 1t used to be said that was an eX-
pertence of the frontier, in communities
which had not become fully organized
and when the forces of the law were not
| yet in successful operation. But now it
may almost be said to have become
habit of the American people 1t
| is useless to scold legislators or law
| yers or judges or executives. They will
never be any better than the popular
| sentiment which is back of them
%
]. Pierpont Morgan; is strict Episco-
| palian, and there is asreport in New York
| that he will deny himself during Lent
| to the extreme of not forming new
| trust, being satisfied to rest awhile on
| the strength of theorecent billion-dollar
| steel trust. 10 m
3t-o-
| Imprisonment for debt has been abol-
| ished in EnglandJebut the same thing ex-
| lists under another name. A debtor Is
sued in the county court and the Judge
/ makes an order that he or she shall pay
| so much per week LorEmonth until the debt
is paid off. If the installments are not
| duly forthcoming the debtor is again
| summoned. and this time he is sentenced
! to prison. not for non-payment of his
| debt, but for contempt of court.
! % riefrs71o s,n an
The congressional garden and flower
| seeds are due. Did you get in requisi-
| ton with your congressman? "' re fs9os
| In Tennessee the penalty for stealing a
| horse is Imprisonment for not less than
| three nor more than ten years, while for
| stealing child it is only from one to five
! years oaH
There are now Sc, eco pension claims on
file in the pension office from invalids OF
! the Spanish and Philippine wars, while
! congress has 5000 special claims in hand.
1t Is reported In New York that Charles
| Dillingham;, general manager of Charles
1 Frohmans attractions, says he Is anA-
4 ious to make Julia Mariowe his wife.
/ He has asked her to marry: him several
4 times Her reply was always: My con-
] tract forbids my marriage, And what
| makes the reply all the more exasperat-
ing to Dillingham; is the fact that he
drew up the papers for Charles Frohman
/ and insisted on the insertion of the
/ clause which now keeps them az art.er g
%
Miss Jane Schroeder who died recent
| ly in Essex Conn.,, lett $1,000 to two dogs
which she had picked up on the streets.
During her sixty-fve years Of life Miss
Schroeder lived In a, tumbledown shanty
and devoted her, days to visiting tine
sick of the towneand picking up stray
dogs and cats. During one of these MIS-
sions she picked8Hp a child and adopted
her as a daughter. Gretchen Schroeder,
as the child is called will inherit what
remains of the $1,000, should the dogs
die before she does.a
In Valparaiso and aother cities in Chilli
the conductors on the street cars are
women They are said to be very polite
and attentive, and their pay is fifty cents
a day.
The citizens of Washington have raised
$72, 600 to be used In decorating the city
and for other purposes attending the in
auguration of Mr.. Mckinley next Mon
day. The pageant next week will be
a gorgeous affair compared to the capitol
city's first inaugural, that of Jefferson
on March 4, 1901, just a hundred years
ago. Jefferson walked from his lodging
to the. capitol and then walked back
owing to some mistake in not having
had carriage ready in time.
It is said some of the ''silk'' manu-
featured In these times in composed
chiefly of wood pulp, cotton and oxide
of tin. Chemistry and machinery may
drive the little factory of the silk worm
out of the field, another victim of the
modern trust
Today, Feb. %, is the anniversary OF
the birth in 1882 of Michael Montaigne
a celebrated French essayist; of Rene
A Reaumer, in 1858, distinguished
French natural philosopher; of Mary
Lyon, in 1877, eminent American
pioneer educator; of Berthold Auerbach
in 1912, popular German author; OF
Elizabeth Rachel Felix, in 1920. the cele-
brated Jewish actress known as Rachel
|