davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-20
4 WE11 PROTECTED INDUSTRY.


The threat of the Textile Manufacture
ers' association to reduce the wages Of
all employees 10 per cent, beginning Sept.
}, is iil-timed as threat, and quite I'M
necessary as a proposition. The claim
of the manufacturers is that the market
is so dull that a cut must be made in
wages or the production stopped until the
surplus of stocks is worked off. This is
confession OF weakness which should
attract the attention of the public gen.
orally. Why is there surplus of stock?
1t is because the textile manufacturers
have been pampered so long that they
have become reliant on the protective
care of the government and will not go
into the foreign markets to get rid Of
Their surplus. They absolutely refuse to
do business on a small margin and
moreover will not take the trouble to
cater to the wants of the foreign trade
Minister WI, in his address to the South
ern Manufacturers association, told that
body plainly what they must GO to Sc
cure and hold the enormous cotton trade
Of China. They must learn the wants
and prejudices of the people and make
their goods accordingly. Do they do it?
No. They send over there what they can
not se!l in the American market and trust
to luck to get rid of it.
Our foreign consuls nave from time to
time, advised the cotton manufacturers
to seek the foreign markets in which
English goods found ready sale, but in
every case their advice has met with a.
fiat refusal to enter into competition with
English-made goods. Instead Of seeking
new fields they prefer to reduce the
wages paid to their operators or
smut down the mills. This was done at
Fall river in 1897 and 1898. Now they pro-
pose a reduction for the purpose Of caus-
ing a. strike. They want to shut down
the mills to preserve the home market.
Should this occur. the sympathy of the
people who know the facts will be with
the strikers.
A few days ago the G ! o b published a
table showing the comparative sales Of
cotton goods by England and the United
States in the principal markets Of the
world This table we reprint:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-20
ahe Destruction Of the Gmpire

Richard Harding Davis in scribner's
Magazine. r.
a. was thirty minutes past nine. Its
ci1urch service ne said. 81 can see
.Hem carrying out the chaplain's read
ing desk on the Indiana" The press boat
poshed her way nearer into the circle of
oalceshlps until their leaden-hued hulls
lowered nigh above her. On the deck of
oaen. tne ships company stood ranged in
tilotioniess ranks The calm of a Sab
Dath morning hung about them, the sun
leii upon them like a. benediction, and so
sun was the air that those on the press
podt could hear, from the stripped and
Haheo decks the voices of the men
answering the roll call in rising mono
Tone, one, two, three. four; one, two,
1hree, four. The whitehead sailors
might have been chorus of supplied
choir boys.
bat up above them the battle flags
slunbertng at the mast-heads stirred
feStlessly, and whin1pered in their sleep.
Out through the crack in the wall Of
mountains, where the sea runs in to
meet the waters of Santiago harbor, and
from behind the shield of Moro castle
great. gray ship. Ike a great, gray
rat stuck out ner nose and peered about
her, and then struck boldly for the sea-
High before her she bere the gold and
blood-red flag of Spain. and like a fugi-
tive leaping from behind his prison walls
she raced forward for her freedom, to
give battle, to meet her death
shell from the Iowa shrieked it's
warning in shrill crescendo, a flutter of
fags painted their message against the
sky The enemy's ships are coming
out, they signaled, and the ranks of
Whlte-clad figures which the moment be-
fore stood mottonless on the decks broke
into thousands of separate beings WAC
flung themselves painting down the hatch
ways, or sprang cheering to the fighting
tops.
Heavily bur swiftly, As islanGs slip into
the water when volcano shakes the
ocean bed, the great battleships buried
their bows in the sea, their sides ripped
apart with flame and smoke, the thunder
of their guns roared ard oeat against tae
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-20
THEIR DEmocRAr1c SIMPLICITY,

The official proclamations issued by
the Venezuelan authorities in the
crisis which now exists are very
instructive documents. "Given, sign
ed and countersigned," says one of
these impressive documents, ''by all the
ministers of the cabinet, by the secretary
of the federal district and the; secretary
of the national executive, and sealed with
the grand seal in the federal palace of
the capital at Caracas, on this 26th day
of July, 1901, ninsty-one years of indie
pendence and forty-three OF federation
All Of which is tto be accepted as ex-
pressive of democratic simplicity as
understood and practiced among our
I4atin-American neighbors The high
sounding phrases adequately express the
popular disposition which admits of being
imposed upon and misled by those in
authority.
The popular form Of government must
be maintained at all hazards 1t matters
not that its essential principles have no
place in practical administration The
populace is easiest held in control
through the representative form. But the
substance remains evidently never to be
put in operation.
The South and Central American repub-
lie is as near an approach to an abso-
lutism as can well be conceived of. The
frequency of the revolutions begotten un-
der it is explaineble on the principle that
the absolutism of one man can never be
said to be acceptable to other men around
him unless he has the power under all
circumstances to enforce 1t. Russian re-
sources are not to be looked for in such
tropical climes.
The result of the present disturbance
cannot be foreAeen. Existing govern
merits may topple, or existing revolution
lists raay be beheaded, the outcome, so
far as relates to the busters of the peo-
pie o. their material happiness, is al
ways the same. AS long as the respon-
sibie nations of the earth have the in
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-20
HE KNEW THE GAME.

New York Post.
The elder Of the two street gamins in
the baseball grand stand was plainly a
"rooter" of long experience. He knew
the first names of all the players, and
the Technology Of the game fell from his
lips as naturally as East side dialect. His
companion, however, was not so for
tunate; in fact, there were indications
that this was the first game he had ever
seen. Oats de bases, Were de sawdust
is, amt it?" this one was saying, re-
ferring to the absorbent material strewn
about the home plate and the pitchers
box His companion answered with
great scorn: Nav, don't yer see de wife
places? Denis de bases" Then, Amt
dat bully grounder.' was the next com
ment referring to "pop-up" foul caught
by the first baseman. At this the elder
boys disgust was too deep for words. He
turned to his right-hand neighbor. a
d1gnified man Of middle age, who looked
bit out of place at ball field. With
jerk Of his thumb over his left
shoulder, the elder boy explained: "TYe
don't know nothin'. I don't go wild him
none He amt never been up here be-
fore. Say. he don't know witch is de
Saint Looueys and which is de Moo
Yorks. don't want you to tink him
an me belong togedder."
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-20
THE PRICE OF A KISS.

To the Editor of the Globe
In your editorial of yesterday, He
Was Publicly Kissed" you say that "a
woman who was made the object of the
Solicitude of a railroad conductor to the
extent of a kiss sued the railroad COM
pany for damages" was non-suited on
the ground that the conductor was act
ing outside of his duty as an officer Of
the company
do not know what case you had in
mind, but think that maybe your mem
books which 1 remember, of kissing a
lady passenger by a conductor, is that
of Craker VS.. the Chicago & North
Western Railway Company, 81 Wiscon-
sin, 657. The plaintiff in her testimony
in describing the incident on which the
action was based, said the conductor sat
down beside her and after some pre-
liminary conversation said: 81 suppose
school marms?" And latter he had kiss
ed me five or six times he said Look
me in the eye and tell me if you are
mad. I said, Yes, l am mad
the attorneys of the company, they
making the most of the point you urge
for the non-liability of the company in
such a case in your editorial. On be-
half OF the woman, the argument was
made by your distinguished townsman,
J. w. Lusk Esq, then Wisconsin law
Yer, who I am sorry to say, has since
quit the profession and gone to making
money. Chief Justice Ryan wrote the
opirion of the court and allowed the
verdict of $1,000 for Mr.. Lusk's client to
stand
The the law is as pronounced by the
great chief justice in that case. If it
were otherwise, just think what would
be the state of our school marms'' these
days on railroad trains, on their voca-
lions on their way to the Philippines to
get married at Honolulu and on their
journeyings generally. The requests
to look in the eyes of conductors and the
provocations to say: yes. I am mad, :"
would be something terrible to conteIn-
plate Lewis r. Larson.
Minneapolis, Aug 49, 1901
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-20
OF SOCIAL INTEREs I

The marriage of Miss Alma Leppen, Of
this city to Fred A. Russell, Of Chicago,
was solemnized late yesterday afternoon
at the brides home on Harrison avenue
Rev. D. D. Mitchell, Of the Goodrich
Avenue Presbyterian church, read the
marriage service in the presence of rel
atives and a few intimate friends The
bride was attended by her sister, Miss
Lillian Leppen, as maid of honor John
Phillips, nof Staples, Mimi, was the best
man. rs
Mr., and Mrs. Russell left last night for
Chicago, their future home.
The marriage of Miss Fannie Abra-
hams, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. Abra-
hams of 923 Lincoln avenue, will be SOL
ennlzed this afternoon at $50 o'clock at
Pfeiffers hall. A large reception will
follow the ceremony
The flower mission of the House of
Hope Presbyterian church met yesterday
morning in the church parlors and ar
ranged quantity Of cut flowers into
bouquets. The bouquets were distrib-
uted by the children among the patients
at st. Luke's and st. Josephs hospitals.
The Misses Mclaughlin will give a mat
inee party tomorrow for Mrs. r. B.
Savage, Of Texas, and the Misses Hall,
Whelan and Well.
Mrs. Hyde, Of West Sixth street, will
entertain the members of the Hamilton
Whist club Thursday afternoon
The Imperial Social club, a West side
organization, will give lawn fete to-
morrow evening on the club house
grounds, Minnehaha street and Payne
avenue
Mrs. Braden leaves for England Wed
nesday evening.
Miss MayIne Gallagher, of East Con-
gress street, gave luncheon Wednesday
in honor of Miss Mary Doig, of Winona
Miss Emily Krank daughter of Mrs.
Susan Krank, II Tilton street, ST. Paul.
and a convert to the Catholic religion,
received recently at Richmond, Ind, the
habit of the Sisters of Providence Miss
Krank was born in New Ulm, but has
lived in st. Paul most of her life
The annual retreat Of the priests Of the
archiepiscopal diocese commenced last
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-20

terests Of these people to look after, there
will always be well defined limit estab-
lished to the operations of revolutionary
marauders.
The policy represented by pan-Ameri-
canism, by the Monroe doctrine and by
the principle Of the paramountcy Of the
United States is one which will hardly
ever be accepted by Latin-Amer1cans.
The standards of popular intelligence
among the masses are not high enough
and the standards of public honor and
patriotism among the leaders Of the peo-
pie are too low.
With the single exception Of Mexico,
government in South and Central
America is a public farce And In
Mexico, when the great man who now Is
known as president, but who really is
an imperial autocrat, passes away, the
condition will almost certainly resolve it.
self into one Of chaos.
Save for the protection of our own ma
tional interests on the continent, and the
material interests of our people resident
in the countries affected by the prevail
ing trouble, our duty is to remain uncon-
cerned observers.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-20

viable. At 7 o'clock comes supper; at
the. men are again summoned to pray
ers, and afterwards may seek their hard,
and by no means luxurious, beds
The Russian soldiers diet is largely
vegetarian. Favorite dinner dishes in
clude ''stche, "a cabbage soup-potatoes,
peas, beans, macaroni and various kinds
of porridges, eaten with onions and lard.
Only half a pound of meat is allowed
each man daily; and the Russian pound
Is 10 per cent less than in this country.
Mushrooms are consumed in great guam
titles, when in season. Three pounds of
black rye bread are included in the daily
rattons; and if any is left over, the men
are at liberty to sell the remains. AS the
soldiers bread is very nourishing, and
purer than the ordinary bakers, the
extra rations sell well. In the way OF
drink, beer is too great a luxury for Ivan
Ivanovitch, so he quenches MS thirst with
'qvas," a cheap substitute, made from
fermented black bread, and very whole
some. On high days the soldiers are
RECALLED with vodka, often at their Of
ficers' expense.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-20
DISASTER TO ISLANDER
GAVE NEWARK, N. j., POLICE TWO
HOURS HARD WORK.

NEW YORK, Aug. 19.-The disaster to
the steamship Islander, off the coast of
Alaska, was the cause Of a tremendous
commotion in Newark, N. J., today. Early
in the morning the Columbian guards of
that city, with 1,2OO excursionists, left
Newark on the steamer Isabel and her
barge for a trip up the Hudson river.
Many, If not the majority of the excur-
sionists, were Italians. When the news
of the disaster to the Islander was bull
letined in front of the Newark newspa-
per offices, a report spread through the
Italian settlement that it was the Isabel
which had gone down with all on board.
Five minutes later the police had their
hands full. Hundreds of men, women
and children from the Italian quarter
rushed screaming to the docks. There
the excitable foreigners wept and prayed
kneel1ng in the pools of water and mud
caused by heavy rain which was fall
ing. 1t was necessary to call out the
police reserves before any semblance of
order could be obtained. Meanwhile tel
ephOne and telegraph were kept busy
and In two hours it was learned that the
Isabel had reached her destination safely,
and at the urgent pleadings of the better
informed Italians the great crowd was
prevailed on to dispense
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-20

evening at st. Thomas seminary, on
Grand avenue, and will continue until
Saturday night. During the retreat Bish-
OPP Mas, of Covington, KY, will give in
struction and conduct services. There are
Its priests in attendance upon the re-
treat.
Mrs Frank Schliclz Jr., OF Dayton ave-
nue., and Mrs. Howard Ware, of Laurel
avenue, viii leave Saturday for a trip
to Buffalo by way of the great lakes.
Maj. and Mrs. John Kelliher and fam
lily, of Grand avenue, will move next
month into one of the Waldorf flats on
Summit avenue
and Miss Marion Sanborn, of the Aber-
deem, will return Sept. 1 from Epson
Mrs t. w. Scott. of selby avenue, is
entertaining Miss Clara Hart, OF Ash
land, Wis.
Miss Nolan, of Carroll street. is spend
ing month in Sioux Fails. 8. D.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. W. Brown, Of Ash
Mrs. William P Murch, of st. Louis,
Mo-, will leave shortly for the East to
take trip down the st. Lawrence
river.
left yesterday for Iindstrom to be gone
two weeks
The Misses slayfn, of Nelson avenue.
are visiting in. Spokane, Wash.
Mrs. J. A. Lovely, of the Albion and
her daughter, Mrs. Leslie Wilcox. of
Walker, Mimi, have gone to Albert
Lea.
Mrs Tracy Lyons is expected home next
week from GiIbertsville, N. Y, where
she has been visiting for a month.
Mrs. Benjamin s. Cowen and daugh-
ter of Holly avenue, are visiting in
Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs w. A. Hilyard and fam
lily left yesterday to spend a fortnight
at the head of the lakes.
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Drummond and
family, of MarshaT avenue, have re-
turned from two weeks outing at Lake
City.
Mrs. Draper, of Dayton avenue is en-
tertaining Miss Coo1nbs, of Louis, Mo,
and Miss Myer Of Chicago.
Mrs. Frank Wooden and Miss Inez
Wooden, of Chicago, are the guests Of
Mrs. A. L. Bolden, of Grand avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. E. P Moran. of Laurel
avenue, and their guest, Miss Mary
Moran, of Washington, D. c., have gone
East
Mr. and Mrs. c. A. Van Duzee. Of
Holly avenue, will visit the Buffalo ex-
position early in September.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-20
HAY TO START FOR CANTON.
Secretary of State VIII Confer with
President Mckinley.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-Secretary
Hay will leave for Canton in a day or
so, probably tomorrow. It is said at the
state department that more significance
is attached to the visit to the president
than the facts warrant 1t appears
that the president wanted to see Mr.
Hay some ten days ago. When the
president is in Washington there are
frequent opportunities for consultation
with his cabinet advisors, but owing to
the absence of both the president and
MIR. Hay there has been no opportunity
for such an exchange between them for
over month. Although it is quite evil
dent that the visit will give an oppor-
tunity for going over the disturbed con-
dition In South America, the Chinese
situation and other pending international
questions, yet there is reason to believe
that the meeting has no special refer
ence to any one Of these topics, but is
more with a view to affording opDortun-
ity for general exchange between the
president and the secretary of state.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-20
~N~>%~~OS0~N@N~
At THE TITEATERS.

Nell Gwynne," which the Criterion
company is presenting at the Metropol-
itan opera house, is one Of the best
things that organization has given St.
Paul playgoers this season, and reflects
great credit on both management and
players. The Criterion company VIII
present Nell Gwynne" for three more
performances. Thursday, Friday and
Saturday nights and Saturday matinee
the Criterion company will present the
revival of Under Two Fags," with Miss
Buckley as Cigarette" Friday after
noon a special matinee will be given NV
request, with 1.-THE Two Orphans as the
bill. '-t0
The regular season at the Metropolitan
VIII open next Sunday evening with
Clyde Fitchs great play, Lovers Lane {"
The sale of seats will open Thursday
morning.
Thursday morning the box office of tho
Grand opera house will open for fbe go
or seats for the opening week which viii
pc anaugurated next Sunday niorht
mathews and Bulger Will start the Sea-
son SO with a new and up-to-date version
OF their comlcal play, The Night of tba
Fourth VI Inc
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-20
D0INGs AT PAG0 PAG0.
Reception by Natives to officers Of
the U. 8. s. Philadelphia.

Reception by Natives to officers of
the U. 8. s. Philadelphia.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 19.-The navy de-
partment has received a letter dated
July % last from Lieutenant Command
er E. J. Doran. at Page Page, relating
to existing affairs IN Samoa. In speak
ing of the reception by natives rendered
the cruiser Philadelphia at Faleasau re-
Gently he says:
During the stay OF the Philadelphia
the natives assembled in great numbers
from all parts Of the island, and the
native governors Of both districts paid
Official calls upon the captain. On July
II a large Taaloio was given to Capt.
Mead and his officers on the Malae or
public square in front Of the command
ants office. At the conclusion several
felicitous speeches Of welcome and 10y
atty were made by the chief talking
men of the island. On the next day a
native feast. followed by a siva-slva, or
native dance, was given and attended
by the captain and his officers. the ma
tive governors and the leading chiefs OF
Tutuila."
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-20
RECEIVERS NAMED FOR TWO
Outcome of Proceedings Against
Charles o.. COrckran.

Charles ID. COrckr0u.
BALTIMORE, Aug. I9.-Receivers wers
appointed here today for the Parkton
Lumber company, Of Baltimore county,
and the Chesapeake Lumber company, of
this city, on the application of Charles
e. Corckran, who asserts that he is the
principal stakeholder in both concerns.
The petitions in both cases aliege that
the companies are insoIvent because Of
the misconduct and nismana cement Of
an officer Of the corporations interested.
The proceedings taken today form a Sc
quel to the suit entered on Saturday last
in the courts OF Baltimore county, in
which q receiver was appointed for the
Manor Lumber company on petition of
Benjamin Cross of Cincinnati, who al
legged that the Manor and other similar
companies were organized and used by
Corckran in furtherance Of a plan to
defraud certain banks by. means OF
worthless commercial paper A sweeping
denial of these charges has been made by
CorclIran, who claims that Cross, in
bringing suit. IS actuated by malicious
motives and a desire to shield an &C
cused relative from punishment for the
commission Of frauds in connection with
some Of Corckran's ventures.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-20
FRANCHISE TURNED DOWN.
Porto Rican Councils GIFT to n
Railway Is DisapproYed.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-The score
tary Of state has received from Attorney
General Knox an opinion upon the ques-
ton of the approval by the president of
a franchise granting to the Companie
de Ferrocariles de Porto Rico the right
to extend it's railway lines between GER
tain points on the island The attor-
ney general advises that the franchise
in question be not approved by the pres
ident, on the ground that the executive
council Of Porto Rico has undertaken
to exempt the company and its property
from all taxation for period Of TWEEN
ty-five years These exemptions. the
attorney general holds, the executive
council was not authorized to make
Congress-" he says, did not delegate
to the council the sovereign power Of
taxation, including the authority to ex-
empt from taxation. This was dele
gated to the legislative assembly Of Por-
to Rico. The two powers are different
and distinct things"
The council, therefore, it is said, has
invaded the province Of the legislative
assembly and the proposed exemptions
are void
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-20
rid. This table We reprint:

How is 1t that England can buy our
cotton, ship it to the British mills, man
ufacture 1t and reshlp 1t to America and
shut out our cotton fabrics from the
market? It will be seen that in all the
South American countries American cot
ton goods are distanced in the race
Even in Mexico, country which we can
reach by rail as well as by our coast
wise steamers, the American sales Of
goods are to the English as 1 to T. And
Cube, our favorte protege, last year
bought Of us only $420,142 worth Of cotton
goods, while during the same time she
bought of England cotton goods to the
value of $2,965, S07 How is this to be &C.
counted for2 Is 1t because England by
her free trade secures advantages of
tariff rates in all the cotton markets Of
the world? If so. it is about time we
made an effort to secure the same by lib
eral inducements in reciprocity treaties
Are we to allow our most thoroughly
protected industries to be shut down and
thousands of our people thrown out Of
employment because our tariff wall keeps
us out Of foreign markets? Even Ger
many and France sell more cotton fabrics
to Cuba, Mexico and the South American
republics than do the United States With
all this market under our nose, must we
shut down our mills for fea- of an over
production? This lesson of tariff and
trade is So plain that he who runs may
read, and a wayfaring man, though a
fool, need not err therein.