The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-05

and limitations of the federal govern
ment as involves a revolution. The scenes
enacted in the closing hours of the con-
gress emphasizes another danger such as
is distinctly the outgrowth of the opin-
ions and policy of the present admins
tration-the danger of unbridled extrav-
agance in public expenditure.
Nothing now stands between the pres
ent administration and the fullest estab-
lishment in the actual conduct of gov
eminent Of the ideas which are en-
bodied in the present government of
Porto Rico and the Philippines except
the supreme court. If the claims put
forward by the federal attorney general
IN the argument of the cases now await
ing the decision of that court as to the
true political status of those countries
Is sustained, a momentuous change will
perforce have been made in our rec
ognized constitutional forms and prac
tlces, unless the minority In congress,
the opposition to such policies, finds the
amplest sustainment- in the public opin-
Ion OF the country. In order that any
such contingency may arise, it will be
necessary for the minority in congress
to array itself in uhwavering hostility
to the public acceptance of the decision
or the supreme court. and appeal TO
the country in subsequent elections for
such changes in the relationship of the
Philippines and Rorto Rico to the rest
OF the country as win give them the
status Of territories whose people shall
be possessed of all the privileges and
immunities enjoyed by the residents of
other states and territories, including the
right to be incorporated in the Union as
states when the conditions prescribed
by the constitution shall have been real
lied by them.
There is no other course to be taken
with reference to the Philippines in the
event of a decision by the supreme court
adverse to the contentious of the admin
lstration, save alone a surrender sooner
or later of all political and territorial
control over the islands-a contingency
which Is no longer looked forward to
seriously by any class of our citizens.
With the opening years of the century
the United States must be regarded In
every event as entering upon a radically
new departure in its foreign and do
nestle policies. The vast consultations
of industrial interests which have been
SO long in progress and which have found
SUCH extraordinary expression In the
steel combination just formed and to-
ward which the federal administration is
clearly favorable, no matter how siren
Eously the party which it represents ex
presses hostility to them, must bring
with them the most far teaching results
IL the social life of the people. They
ore in progress all around us, and will no
Goubt 50 continue under the auspices of
the incoming administration, until it has
become practically impossible for any
citizen to engage in the conduct of any
commercial business whatever unless he
is possessed of extensive capital.
The spirit and purpose which underlie
all these manifestations of changed
methods find expression in the vast out
lays which have been made by the out
going congress for the transaction of the
business of the federal government. and
which many of the leading Republicans
OF the country in and out of congress
regard as embodying the most unbridied
extravaganza.
Public opinion Will no doubt, find ex-
preston pending the converting of the
next congress concerning the vast
changes which are in process of effectua-
ton in so many directions. Whether the
indications of that opinion point to de-
clsive popular condemnation or not the
Democratic opposition has many great
opportunities awaiting it. Ably and
courageously led, with united front and
we'll defined programme, It seems now
almost inevitable that 1t shall succeed
IA q ONNoAA10 I1IC OOQAlty dSd1LSI the
dangers which confront it. as it was
aroused in 1876 under the leadership OF
Samuel j. Tilden to the enormities OF
Grants second administration. and later
against the third-term conspiracy, the
threatened election of Blaine and the
encrmittes of the Mckinley tariff and
the billion congress
There never has been a period reached
in the political history of the country
when the people did not show themselves
ready to rise in revolt against extrava
gance and corruption such as that witch
has been displayed by the congress
which has just passed out of existence.
Reform and retrenehnlent and a return 10
the economies of a Democratic system
have ever sufficed as warning cries to
stay the progress OF evils ssuch as wa
have seen called into existence within
the past four years, without apparently
warning voice raised against them.
The issue OF the sacred right Of tia in
dividual citizen TO the free exercise of
his energies in the pursuit of his daily
calling has never failed to appeal to
people who believe that their institutions
make and keep them free There can be
neither industrial nor social freedom for
the masses with such vast organizations
as that represented by the junction in
the world of industry of the forces of
Carnegie. Morgan and Rockefeller. in
operation, and threatening extension in
tie production and ssle of all the neees-
saries of life of The people.