The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-20

has been established. Instead of that,
however, congress passed a resolution
giving the president the same absolute
and despotic power over the Filipinos
that the sultan has over the Armenians.
Another strike is threatened in the
Pennsylvania anthracite coal mines.
This time the mine owners will not be
hampered by an impending election as
they were last fall.
When Senator Carter dropped out Of
the senate. he dropped into nice, warm,
soft berth prepared for him by che presi-
dent. When Senator PettigreH dropped
out OF the senate, he dropped into hole
Some congressman are going to Porto
Rico and the Philippines to see for them
selves. They had better stay at home
and mind their fences or they may get
written down on Hanna's blacklist as
traitors
If this situation In China is to result
| ir, general European war, the with
drawal of our troops is the wisest thing
that could be done; in any other case,
however, it is the greatest mistake the
present administration ever made.
| The South annually spends about $40,-
| 0O0,OO0 for public school purposes OF this
the negroes contribute only atAy-c one
| thirteenth, though they have the OPP
| portunity to reap nearly one-haTf of the
| benefit Of it.
! The practice Of the administration to
use the dispensation Of patronage to gain
| the support of congressman for legisla-
ton, which their better judgment con-
| dennis, may not be bribery, but it would
| be nice to have somebody explain just
what it is.
| Some Republicans actually seem to be
| afraid, that the various schemes for
footing the treasury may discredit the
| party. After that fifteen thousand mil
lion dollar congress, it would not seem
| that anything could discredit the party.
| 1t ought to be immune
| Haven't we struck it rich, though, in
| the Philippines? What a bonanza we
| have there! The chief argument in favor
! of acquiring them was their commercial
value That argument has long been rel
| egated to the rear with last years birds
| nests. They have cost us more already
than we can gain from their commerce in
| a lifetime. 80
! And if the other nations did follow the
| example of thedunfted States in with
! drawing their troops from China, what
| guarantee would there be for the future,
what authority ts,there to est alish order,
and is there anybody so simple and naive
as not to realize that such action would
merely give Russia the coveted oppor-
tunity to Step I'M and get control of the
entire country? 10.
The Republican, triumph in Maryland
in 1896 being, largely due to the negro
vote, the latter assumed an offensive at
| titude to the whites and made themselves
so obnoxious as to cause a political re-
| action. The law by means of which
Maryland, now proposes to disfranchise
/ the illiterate negro vote has been roundly
denounced by Republican papers, yeteit is
| practically a copy of the franchise law
|
| lican state of Massa chusetts
| It is evident that the administration IS
trying to win over the Southern whites
by favoring the disfranchisement Of the
negroes. That such a course may make
| the party lose the Northern negro vote,
has been suggested, but there really is
not much danger of it, In the late cam
| paign one of the chief arguments of the
Republican party was that the inferior
races" are incapable of self-government
yet the negroes stood by the party just
as faithfully as ever
The German chancellor recently sal !
that if by world policy was meant
"a tendency to interfere in matters which
cont concern us, I am decided oppo-
nent of such world policy.'f"1 But he
declared that he proposed to preserve
German interests in Eastern Asia, to hold
Germany's 'place in the sunshine, and
not let ourselves be pushed into the
| shade Good! just paste that in your
hat, Uncle Sam, and do likewise.
| OF course. Russia needs Manchuria to
| round out. her Asiatic empire and pro-
tect the terminus of her great transcon-
tinentaI railway. But England is just as
much in need of the valley of the Yang
tse-Kiang to1 complete her magnificent
Indo-C Chinese empire, and Germany needs
| Shan Tung and the valley of the Hoang
! Ho to round out her colonial system. If
| Russia is not to be blamed for taking
that which it is in her interest to take,
England and Germany cannot but be
expected to do likewise. It is your I'm
Gle Sam that gets lost in the shuttle.
| If it comes toGa partition of China, 1t
| will be because Russia broke the agree
ment OF the powers by grabbing Man
| churia. China, if its integrity is main
tanned, will, within a few years, develop
| an enormous foreign trade and we might
| reasonably expect to get the bulk of it.
| Our interests, therefore, are for the
''open door, and against partition We
were III position to insist on this policy.
England is not and Germany probably
/ does not care one way or the other. If
! it is to be the "open door," Germany can
get her share of the trade, and if 1t is
to be partition, she can get her share of
! territory. On the other hand, it is a
question of life and death for Japan.
i If we had stood out boldly for the open
door and against partition, we would
have had the unqualified support of
| Japan, England and Germany, and Rus
STA would not have dared to do anything
to the contrary. But, of course, Uncle
| Sam had one foot caught in that Philip
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