The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-15

evidently intends, to return the >compli-
ment.
Evans, Lowry Tawney, and Tams
should remember that beautiful and po-
etc saying fine ancient philosopher of
Pumpklnville, E..yTnited we stand, divided
we beg Ia
William Waldorf Astor has again con-
tributed $25,OOJ to the Princess of Wales
South African relief fund and yet the
queen won't invite him to her receptions
Poor Willy Wally!
Out of one thousand officers, $50 testi-
fed that the morality and discipline in
the army had been improved by the post
exchange or canteen. In view of such
testimony the action of congress looks
queer.
Some of our exchanges are still working
themselves into a fine frenzy over the
story of the soldier boy that was SEN
fenced to death for sleeping at his post
while on duty in the Philippines. That
story was a fake and contradicted weeks
ago. Wake up!
An exchange insinuates that the owl
cars in st. Paul have been put on to
accommodate people with jags. That is
foul SANDER. Jags are unknown in
st. Paul, and the owl cars are merely
to accommodate young men who have
been sitting up late with their best girls.
The Republican party will connfve at
the disfranchisement of negroes in the
South. They hope to win over part of
the solid South as soon as the negro
question is settled, and they don't wish
to imperil the success of their scheme by
reducing the representation of the South.
John G. Carlisle in his argument before
the supreme court III one of the Porto
Rican cases remarked that the question
was not whether the constitution fol-
lowed the flag, but whether it covered
the president5athei secretary of state and
congress. These powers seem to have
acted independently of the constitution.
Now that the canteen is to be banished
from the army, let the w. c. T. U. turn
it's attention to the national capitol. Let
every SENATOR and every representative
be obliged to- seek an ordinary "grog
shop when he feels that he needs some
thing for hisTstomach's sake. What is
sauce for the goose ought to be sauce
for the sander.
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Texas raises one-third of the cotton
crop of the entire country, and expects
to have 10,000,000 inhabitants in twenty
five years. AS Cuba is now, so was Texas
at one time, confronted by the question
whether to join the Union or go it alone
begin to be what she is now if she had
decided the other way.
Certain people are trying to turn
the Minnesota State Dairy asso-
citation into political machine to elect
Jas. A Tawney to the United States
senate. A great many farmers, however,
think that. whatever Tawney may have
done for the dairy interests of the state,
it does not begin to wipe out the record
of his deal with the lumber syndicate.
Hanna is willing to further amend the
ship subsidy bill so. as to admit those en-
gagged in the coastwise trade to the pool,
so far as they carry foreign goods.
Other amendments were agreed to by the
committee. Il this bill was the proper
thing when first drawn, as Mr. Hanna
asserted, why all these amendments?
Can it be that they are necessary to get
votes enough to carry it through? We
wonder.
Ii Hung Chang administered a well de-
served rebuker to- the so-called Christian
nations when he suggested that they re-
wise their ten commandments, so that
the eighth might read: Thou shalt not
steal, but thou mayest loot" The old
diplomat seems to be convinced that the
missionaries have forgotten their mission
and are indulging their worldly propensi-
ties to the utmost in securing gains from
traffic in loot.
To kill rebellion by inches and trust
in patience and the slow-dragging course
of time to bring back peace and order,
is neither wise nor humane The people
want that war in the Philippines ended,
and they are willing to foot the bill, but
they are sickeandb tired of reading this
continuous record of useless bloodshed
and the CHASTITY lists of the dead. Let
the administration ask whatever it needs