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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17
UsURPATION OF THE HOMES BY


The public schools, their virtues and
ing comment by the popular public press
as well as the more formal magazines.
This public interest is quite natural, for
no other institution sustained by general
taxation comes so near to the heart of
the home. Those whose duty it is to
shape the rudimentary education of the
millions Of children between the ages of
six and twelve years bear greater ma
tional responsibility than do those who
frame the laws.
Recognizing this fact, it Is with much
concern that the old and conservative
elements in each community look upon
the radical changes taking place in both
the theory and practice of teaching. Pub
lie schools are not what they were tfir-
ty years ago. The evolution in educa-
tional matters has kept pace with the
industrial evolution Of the age and he
who is welded to the idols of his youth
fails to comprehend the situation and
denounces educational innovations as
fadS. 1t has become a fad to denounce
the so-called fads in our public schools
drifting into paternalism-that the pub
lie schools are usurping the place of the
home
That the public schools are gradually
taking the burden of moral and mental
training from the home is most true.
And it is well that it is true. The public
schools are designed for the children Of
the masses and not for the select few.
1t is the great body Of children whose
education ends before Their twelfth year
that stands in need of mental and moral
training somewhere beside the place
called home.
In the large cities where the theory
of paternalism prevails to the greatest
extent is where the average school child.
if he gets hint Of a refined life must
get it in the schools. Thousands of chill
dren see little of love, Of kindness, of
gentleness. of refinement except what
comes to them in the public kindergar-
ten. 1t is in the public schools that they
are taught to be truthful, to be gentle
in their manners, to be thoughtful of the
feelings Of others. to be pure in thought
and honorable in action. It is there that
they are brought into contact with the
refining influence of art and music
Their very surroundings tend to develop
their moral nature and add to their self
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17
Ex-pREsIpENT HARRISON.

Benjamin Harrison is dead and the ma
ton mourns; not for Harrison the ex-
president but for Harrison the man. In
the fuIlnes of a ripened manhood he was
cut off, While still Sin love with life"
and in the full enjoyment Of all that
which honor brings, the message came
and he passed to the great unknown.
He did not fall to the ground mellow with
age, but was plucked in his vigorous ma
turfty from the tree Of life.
With the exception of Abraham Lin
coin, and perhaps James G. Blaine, the
last half of the nineteenth century pro-
duced no greater American. Benjamin
Harrison was not a brilliant mana
world, but he was great in his complete
ness. He was superb in his intellectual
catholicity. AS a scholar, a soldier,
statesman, a diplomat, he was equally at
home His public utterances are models
of literature and oratory. Refinement,
good taste and common sense surrounded
him like halo. While he stood in the
glaring light that shines upon the chief
executive of the United States, the
world could find no flaws in his symmet-
rical and polished character.
Measured by the standard of the intel
lectuaI Christian world, Benjamin Harri
son was a great man. Had he been less
great he would have been more notori-
Gus. His poise of character, the celebrity
his mind, his clearness and simplicity Of
expression, gave to the unobserving, the
impression of commonplace.
How much of his polished genius Ben
jamin Harrison inherited from his ances-
tors and how much was achieved by his
untiring diligence cannot be known. De-
scended from a line of patriots, it is not
strange that love of country and it's
traditions reached in him the dignity Of
a passion Seeing in the changed foreign
policy of the national government a
menace to the constitution and a depar-
ture from the. national traditions ii
which the greatness Of the republic rests,
he boldly entered his protest, although
that position would ALLEVIATE the politi-
cal friends of a lifetime. The future may
prove him wrong, but right or wrong the
act shows the greatness of the man.
No filter model of American manhood
can be presented to the youth of this
nation than the career and character Of
Benjamin Harrison.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17
THE PRIZE MONOPOLY.

The remarkable discoveries of Pc
troleum which are coming to light in
Texas are arousing much public interest.
Already the WONDER prevails whether the
huge monopoly which now has control
of the oil supply of the American peo-
pie will be able to get hold OF the new
oil fields of the South.
AS long as the principles prevail with
reference to the ownership of the purely
natural products like oil, coal, gas, ETC..
which are now in operation, the certain
ty of monopoly in their control seems
established. 1t is against such a sItua-
ton that the consuming public direct
their hopes and expectations on such
occasions as that of rich discoveries
such as have recently been made in
Texas.
We may profess to regard our civil
institutions as the very acme of human
design for the prevalence of individual
and collective freedom; but it is only
when we have brought home to us the
facility with which few wealthy men
are able to control the output Of such
products as we mention that the average
intelligent man finds himself inluiring
whether there really can be true civil
freedom when such conditions prevail
The Standard Oil company pays an an
nual dividend of $2o,0oo,oOO on capital
ization of $10O00o,O00. The total quantity
OF oil produced in the United States
during the last fiscal year was 5000, $50
barrels, valued at $75611, $50. Twenty mil
lion dollars made on sales aggregating
Seventy-ffve and a half millions repre-
sents a remarkable proportion of profit
And every barrel of that oil, and every
dollar of that money, is controlled By
the few men who own that $1OOOOO.OOO of
stock.
Some years ago in the Allegheny oil
fields there were s25,C0oCOO worth of oil
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17
Inaugura1 Displays.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
who will ride up the avenue with tho
president in 1862" is one of the questions
asked by writers who do not find enough
in the stirring present to give vent to
their photographic smartness Perhaps
the inauguration four years hence viii
be SO modest and retiring that questions
of precedence will be of no moment.
There is a strong undertow, without
distinction of party, against spectacular
celebrations of changes in the govern
ment. The inauguration of a president
as now conducted, is a party event Il
was so on two occasions-in 1885 and 1893
when the Democrats of the country
thought they had put member of their
party in the executive chair. The two
inaugurations of Mr.. Mckinley have been
largely in the nature of Republican jubil-
ations. Those who believe that we have
too many elections and too much politics
for the good of business, may be willing
to dispense with any further formality
in the induction of president than might
be involved in the services of a justice
OF the peace or notary public.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17

respect. 1t is there that the little wait
of the street.-the hungry-eyed child of
poverty-meets a sympathetic friend in a
refined teacher, the marks of whose in
huence she will retain through life.
The pupils who come from homes where
they are surrounded by every refining
influence will not be injured by the pater-
nalism of the schools, but rather receive
an added impulse to right doing. while
the refinement of manner which they
bring from home will be pattern for
less fortunate children.
From the kindergarten to the high
school every possible influence. refining
in its nature, should be thrown around
the child. School buildings should be
models of architecture and cleanliness.
Teachers should be accomplished, refined,
courteous The very air that the child
breathes should be charged with the NOR
al elements Of character building. BY this
is meant. honor, industry, truth, self-re-
spect and respect for authority, the taste
for refinement and knowledge and an
ambition to do right for rights sake.
These things are not always taught at
home, because they are not held as es-
sentials to getting on in the world.
These things the public schools are ac-
complishing by the Introduction and
maintenance of what are popularity called
"fads." They are striving to give IN
their limited time, to the child glimpse
into better life to build character as
well as impart information. 1t Is better
for society at large, that child learn
to be honest and to speak the truth, than
it is that he be able to spell every word
in the dictionary. 1t is better for both
the children and the state that at the
age of twelve they have been taught to
be lady-like and marty in their thoughts
and actions, than to ne able to extract
the cube root or read Caesar at sight.
For the sake Of majority of the chill
dren we should hail the day when the
public schools usurp the influence of the
average home wherever that influence is
slack or tends to dwarf the moral stature
of the child.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17
DIsoBEDIENT PoLYwoGs.

Two polywogs went out to play
Upon pleasant summers day;
Wen have some fun" they seemed to
Those youthful polywogs.
We've long been pent In this poor pond.
And yet of new things we are fond,
If we are polywogs!
And so these jolly little dogs
These wiggling woggling polywogs
Struck out from their moss covered logs
Two daring polywogs.
The rushes quickly they got through,
And then there dawned upon their view
A world beyond, both vast and new,
To these two polywogs.
A mighty deep before them lay,
With lots of room for them to play,
And there they thought they both might
Two happy polywogs.
They had been told-yes, Ger and Ger
They must not venture far from shore,
OF they would meet with troubles sore,
Too great for polyWogs.
But they were wogs that knew no fear
And felt quite wise, though born that
Conceited polywogs!
So each one. gave his tail sweep,
And forward sprang, with gladstone leap
From shallow water into deep
These careless polywogs
Just then a fish vent swimming by,
He spied those wogs with his sharp eye,
And said, Those chaps have got to die
I'll eat those polywogs!"
One sweep he made with every fin,
Then stretched his mouth and took them
in,
And so they persisted in their sin,
Those foolish polywogs.
So oftentimes do foolish boys
Go out to swim in sinful joys
But always find that sin destroys
Not only polywogs,
But other sinners, we are told,
Who sin through drink or love Of gold;
They mostly die before they're old
Like those two EolywoGS.
Had they obeyed, those two young wogs
Might have grown up to stately frogs
Enjoying life in their own boys,
Nor died as polywogs.
And so If boys would grow up men
There are commands, some eight or ten.
That they must follow, now and then.
Or they'll die polywogsi
u. w. Whitfield in Utica Observer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17
BETRAY1NG THEIR PARTY.


The mask has at last fallen from the
faces of two traitors to their party, elect
ed to exalted public station through the
nominations and votes of the good Demo-
cratic people of this city. Aid. Bantz and
Hunt will be condemned by all Democrats
of this community as long as they live
for the treachery they have perpetrated.
No good man of any party-no man, how
ever independent he may be of party at
tachments-can read the proceedings q
the common council in the election of
Mr.. Markham without being compelled
to apply the brand of political recreancy
to these two men.
The G e does not pretend to ex-
plain the influences which have operated
to produce this untoward result Enough
for it that the result has been produced
and that it has been betrayal, shame
less and complete, of the Democratic
party which elected these two men to
the offices they hold.
Were there any man less admirably
qualified presented to them as their
party's candidate for corporation attor-
ney than Mr.. James c. Michael, there
might be found possible excuse or pal
nation, however far-fetched, for their
conduct. But turning from him, as they
have done, to VIGOROUSLY bitter adher-
ent of the party opposition, in no one
single respect the superior of Mr..
Michael, and in many respects vastly his
inferior, they have placed upon them
selves. beyond the power of removal, the
stigma Of The darkest political turpitude
and treachery.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17

the s121 100000 total. We have captured
British America, British Australasia,
British Africa and in the United Kingdom
itself, and have made even Germany a
good market for American hardware and
machinery. And yet our tariff schedules
are filed, page after page, with iron and
steel tariffs, based on the false pretense
that our iron and steel industry is an in
FAINT that needs protection even in its
home market.
OF copper manufactures we export $751;
100000. of farm implements $16.OOOO0O,
wood manufactures nearly s12.oOOOOO,
chemicals $13,OOO,GOO, mineral oil SCI, 900 900,
leather $27,OOO,OOO. and even of coal and
coke $50 1000, Goethe. total exports of man
ufacture1 goods reaching $4S2, 100000 plac-
many in the front rank of world powers
in the International factory-ware trade.
But in the race of competition we hold
these Invaluable points OF advantage over
DOln lSlduQ dIu GSIulduy W W0
have a greater abundance and cheapness
of raw materials; ca we have the more
modern and effective methods and ma
chimes; 60 we have more inventive, en-
ergetic and ambitious employees and get
out them for given wage a larger
result in volume or product; (4) we have
a larger and more active home market
to give our exporting mills and factories
a reliable foundation in extending their
trade across sea. In general volume of
manufactures, as well as in the CONNER
cial instinct to develop trade, we now
stand first among nations. The tariff
walls which in our infantile days were
sought by our manufacturers on the
ground of industrial weakness are now
barriers against trade expansion and de-
stroy tie friendly trade relations with
out Y hich commerce goes hating. The
new cry of American industry is heard
on our coast-Down with the walls and
out upon the seas!
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17

day. and Is somewhat timid about being
alone at any time. In this emergency
she made up her mind quickly how to
act. AS soon as the Dago (for that waa
hts pedigree) raped at the door. she
opened it, and before he could say q
word she, with trembling voice eyes
staring and possibly shade paler, said
smallpox" What, smallpox" the man
fairly screamed. He did not wait to hear
any more but flew, and as he passed
some old fence posts piled near the path
from the house, hanging TO one post was
piece of barbed wire which caught his
coattail and ripped out chunk as big as
a mans hand as he sailed by, but he did
not stop for the piece, and hurried away
fearing the dreadful disease would oyerS
take him at every STEP
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17
SUNDAY GLOBE CHANCES.

Had you ever thought that there might
be temptation to good as well as to evil?
Is this common notion true that we are
forever solicited to do wrong and never
to do right? Is the declaration from
Proverbs vii, 1, Doth not wisdom cry?''
too ancient and old-fashioned for appli-
cation today?
Today, March II, is the anniversary Of
the birth, in 1777, of Roger B. fancy, fifth
chief Justice Of the United States. His
decision in the bred Scott case, In 1857,
removed the last barrier to the extension
of slavery, and fastened a reproach on
name that could have commanded the
respect of the nation on any other subject
but slavery. 1t may be interesting to
note the fact that bred Scott was the
slave of an army surgeon, and was with
his master at Fort Smelling, in this city.
He objected to going back South, hence
the celebrated suit.
The formal accommodation of Count
Tolstoi by the Greek church of Russia
has been announced. He has been under
the displeasure of the church for some
time. The popularity of Tolstoi's heresy
is that he believes and practices the liter
al teachings of Christ of Self-denial the
dedication of wealth to the poor, the
community and brotherhood of labor. All
this may be impractical in the modern
age but there is no doubt that it is an
actual adoption of the teachings of the
founder of Christianity and Of the ex-
ample of the disciples and their imme
date followers. His offense against the
Greek Catholic church was in putting in
plain language the fact that the church
did not in practice follow these teachings.
The church could not discipline the social
reformer for declaring the literal force
of the doctrines it processes. But when
he asserted that the church was not true
to those doctrines it seeks its retaliation
in the terrors of accommodation.
Twenty years ago Booker 7. Washing
tou a Young negro graduate of Hampton,
began his school at Tuskegee, Ala,
in a single cottage and without money,
Today it has an attendance of some l.4O0,
has some thirty buildings constructed
almost wholly by its pupils has we'll
titled farm, and teaches thoroughly and
practically dozen forms Of industry for
men and women suited to the needs OF
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17
CARNEGIE-TM.DEN.

The offer made by Mr.. Carnegie to the
city of New York is one which, will Sc
verely test any. claim which that COM
munity may be said to possess to being
regarded as a progressive and public
spirited community, The big metropo-
lis differs from almost every other city
on the continent, in that all that has been
realized in that community toward es-
tablishing and maintaining its greatness
has come In great measure from indiv-
idual enterprise but chiefly through nat
ural forces which have been continu-
ously urging the slow-going Knickerbock-
er on to the rapid pace at which he has
been footing it for some time past.
Taken in connection with his many
other benefactions, this offer of Mr..
Carnegie is almost Overwhelming. He
offers $500 600, to establish branch IL
braries all over the big city provided the
city will furnish the necessary land and
provided satisfactory arrangements can
be made for the maintenance Of the pro-
cannot be declined; and, accordingly, it
is reasonable to believe that New York
will before long, and mainly through the
munifcence Of two men, Samuel j. TIL
den and Andrew Carnegie, be in pos
session of something like adequate library
facilities for, its people. It is less than
two decadesy ago since that community
had no public library whatever, and had
to depend upon the old Mercantile IL
brary, private concern maintained for
profit and on the other private libraries
maintained through private funds, such
as the Cooper institute, the Lennox and
the Astor libraries.
The grand example which Mr.. Carnegie
is setting to the rich men of the country
surely cannot be wholly lost upon them.
Many of them will no doubt leave a
more or less large proportion Of their
possessions after death to one or other
public institutions, But the experience
of the two men with whose memory the
public Libraries of the great city will be
identified en1bodies in itself lesson
which should not be lost on any public
spirited man of wealth who contemplates
devotfng any portion Of his wealth to
public uses.
Mr.. TiIden had INDUCED himself in the
expectation all through the closing years
Of his life that the great wealth which
had come to him would after his death
be expended in the establishment of a
great public library in the city in which
his life had beef spent. He made his
will accordingly. The will was con-
tested, and Mr.. Tilden's purpose was
practically overthrown by remote kindred
in whom he haa@no human interest. Mr.
Carnegie takes no such risk. He pro-
ceeds to the accomplishment of his pur-
poses during hisaJifetime, and will prob
ably long live 4sozenjoy the fruits of his
own goodness
The statistics published in connection
with Mr. cagnegiess most recent gift. re-
lating to the nihnber of people in the
several great cities who are furnished
with library facilities, might perhaps be
taken to heartily the people of our own
city.
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17

The almost universal opinion through
out Missouri, says the Kansas City
World, is that the Younger brothers, now
in prison at saltwater, Mimi, should be
pardoned. 1t is admitted that the killing
of the bank cashier was brutal and
wanton, and the men well deserved their
punishment. But they have spent nearly
tWenty-four years in prison. They are old
men and broken down in health Mime
sofa could well afford to let these men
return to Missouri and spend their few
remaining days among their old friends
and neighbors
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17

According to the New York correspon-
dent Of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Adam Drummer, head waiter at the HoI-
land house, is. one of the Iuckiest men
alive, having won the kindly interest of
Charles M. Schwab, the 100000 a year
president of the billion-dollar steel COM
b1nation. Adam had saved some money.
but was perplexed about investing it. At
the Holland house assembled the steel
magnates at the time their giant COM
bination was forming, and with them
came an idea to Adam. He was assid-
ucus in his attentions to them as they
fingered at the table; especially was he
devoted to the creature comfort of Mr.
Schwab. The young president was ap-
preciative and spoke to Adam From
this beginning grew an acquaintance,
carefully cultivated by Adam until at
length he dared to mention his savings
and ask advice about what to do with
them. Mr.. Schwab, so the story goes,
told Adam to go to Wall street and place
his money in certain ways. The waiter
did as advised, and in week had $780,
600
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17
AS to satam's Abode.

New Ulm Review
One Prof John H. Fulton, a graduate
of Edinburgh university, who Is now in
Chicago. says that Satan has his abode
in the planet Saturn. It Is very evident
that the professor has given out his opin-
ion before remaining long In Chicago. II,
however, after a reasonable residence In
that city he does not change his mind
we would advise a visit to Minneapolis
and slummerIng tour with Doc Ames
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17

Bolivar, Mo-, woman wanted to go
to Breckenridge and did not have the
money. She wrote to a Breckenridge man
whom she did not know, telling him that
she was young and pretty and wanted
$3.50 to buy a railroad ticket to come and
see him. He pulled cork, bait and line to
the bottom of the creek and now has
sworn out warrant against the woman
charging her with obtaining money I'M
der false pretenses-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17
New Weapon of Defense.

Lake Crystal Union.
Attorney Reed tells a pretty good story
about Miss Farmer, sister of Mrs. Reed,
which will bear repeating. Those who
have seen person more than frightened
can appreciate this situation without
much reflection Miss Farmer resides on
a farm near Vernon Center, and one day
last week she looked out the window
and saw a man with Il fack on his back
as large as bedtick coming up the lane
toward the house. She was alone that
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17

Congressman Hull is president Of q
company that proposes to loot the Phil
tppines of franchises. mineral conces-
sions. forest lands and other bonanzas.
Meantime it Is well to keep the public
worked up over the looting that those
awful Europeans are doing in China. 1t
will divert the peoples minds from the
looting that is going on in the Philip
pines.