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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-14
DOWN 70 BUSINESS BASIS
APPLICATIONS FOR ABATEMENT OK
TAXES WILL BE Carefully
SCRUTINIZED HEREAFTER
TO HOLD REGULAR MEETINGS
Financial Affairs of Abstract Office
to he Thoroughly inspected
by County Commits
siOners.

Applications for abatement Of refund
menC OF taxes will hereafter receive
more than ordinary consideration from
the tax committee Of the county board
At the meeting Of the commissioners
yesterday, the question was not dis
cussed very heavily, owing to the fact
that the investigation now on of ALLEGED
irregularities in the auditors Office was
not completed, but the members seemed
imbued with the fact that It would DO
good idea to get busy.
Accordingly Commissioners Lott
Whitehorne and Powers, who represent
the tax committee, Informed the board
that they had written a letter to Auditor
Johnson, notifying him that all per.
sons having application for abatement
or refundment Of taxes must a1pear
personally before the committee and
produce the certificates. Regular meet
ings will be held every month and tho
auditor and county attorney VIII be re-
CURED to be present.
For some reason, known only to few
a resolution was introduced by Com
missioner Gray ordering an investigation
into the financial affairs of the Office OF
John II. Schultze, county abstract
clerk. 1t passed unanimously and Char
man Smith appointed Commissioners
Powers, Wright and Gray 10 do tho
work. The affairs Of the office will DO
investigated from Jan !. 1900 the time
Mr.. Schultze took charge, until Jan. j.
1901, when the Office was placed on q
fee basis
1t is stated the investigation is made
for the purpose Of substantlatug tho
statement OF Mr.. Schulze that the office
cannot be kept going unless additional
money Is furnished to put the Office IN
an Up-to-date condition. Prior TO the
fee system he received So COO q ven and
clerk hire, but now his living and that
OF his clerks, together with the other
expenses, must come out Of the fees,
which Of late have been decidedly
small Mr.. Schultze also claims that tho
abstract companies are combined i'm an
effort to wipe the Office out Of existence.
and because Of his lack OF money he is
unable to keep the Office in the proper
condition.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-14
WITH THE TRAVELLERS

A joIlier set of guests never filed the
hotels of St. Paul than those composing
the majority of patrons just now he
evenly eighth session Of the grand di-
vision Order of Railway Conductors has
drawn to the city Q sufficient number of
trainmen already to rather crowd the
hotel Hobbies, but by tonight the hostel les
will probably be overrun.
Eyes, it is true; did you ever stop 20
think of it? l have found that those
men whose work subjects them to great
danger, are, as a rule, the happiest and
best natured fellows of ALL" said an old
conductor who had wendell his way clear
from New Hampshire and was sitting
in the midst of a score or more of his
fellow workmen in one of the hotels
last night ''YoR take the members Of
the fire department, they are nearly
always a good natured set; sailors are
the same and as q rule soldiers Will come
in the same category, and as for railroad
men, I'll bet you an annual YOU wor' t
find better humored aggregation Of
men in any other class of business" A
dozen or more were ready with their
assents and there did not seem to be
any one present who cared to question
the assertion. Why this is true. may be
as strange as that It is. But to use
the railroader's own words mark my
word ard see of observation won't bear
me out"
From East, North, South and West the
conductors have come and will still come
1t was little amusing to watch the diff
ferent effects of the Minnesota weather
which is just at present quite cool for
this season of the year, upon the differ
ent arrivals. One could almost Invariably
tell the section of the country from
which a man came from the manner
in which he took the weather. One
conductor from Huntington, W. Va, who
runs on tho Chesapeake 81 Ohio, said
it was the mildest winter he had ever
seen and was greatly surprised to learn
that Minnesota had such winters. Why
down there, where 1 have just come
from, we have been sweating fer a good
mary weeks and I'll tell you sir, it's a
relief to get here where the spring
breezes fan you like they do at the sea-
side. Tn dead struck on Minnesota
weather.
1t will be a pity if the weather man
does not rrolong this engagement Of
weather until the convention of the
trainmen is over at least, for if he can
make this hold out, tho Northwest may
have much larger population when the
convention closes than it has now 1t
really will not be surprising IL a number
of the trainmen from certain sections
of the country where the weather is
less tolerabIe and wages lower than in
the Northwest do make arrangements
to stay in this part of the country.
Several have been heard to express
themselves. One poor fellow who runs
on that division of the Southern Pacific
that extends through the pnrchiDg Mo-
have desert, said he would be happy
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-14
Politics OF.
,..@e State

The st. Vincent New Era. published in
flttson county, comes out with a "big
Doom for S. G. Comstock as the Re-
puollcan candidate for congress in the
n NTH district. Several prominent Re
publ1cans in that district are mentioned
as being back of the movement and it
would seem that Comstock is getting
INTO the game with all his might, even
though 1t very early. Albert Berg does
not appear to be very aggressive can
Gloate, though it was conceded to have
oeen ms original purpose of moving up
to that part of the state. The big mans
record in the house during the past win
Ter, upon which he had designed to build
his campaign, seems to be sort CT
boomerang. Apparently he has but one
paper in the district with him as a con-
GressionaI possibility.
Through the coming to life of Consul
McCook, of Dawson, Alaska, who was
recently reported as dead, Senator J. J.
Ryder, formerly a resident at East Grand
Forks, had his hope of this important
position blasted. He was after the con-
sulship, with a favorable chance of win
ming out, and it was unkind of fate to
come into the way of this government
position-hut no doubt Consul McCook is
satisfied to let matters stand the way
they are Thirteen Towns Fosston.
The ST. Peter Free Press says that if
the political slatemakers decide not to
run Gov. Van SAINT for second term, as
they may do, will the party recognize
him as weak nominee for an ''off year"
State Auditor Dunn is sure to be pushed
forward. Regarding Mr.. Dunns reitera-
tion that he is not candidate, the Free
Press says:
There is. however. a bare possibility
that changed conditions may suggest the
necessity for the nomination of a new
man and Mr.. Dunn might find himself
badly handicapped a year hence If he
keeps on denying his ambition in that
direction. Perhaps Bob is not clear i'll
his own mind what he intends to do.
Nevertheless he cannot blame his friends
if they take him at his word when he
insists that he is not a candidate and
doesn't expect to become ONE
81. Adam Bede seems at this date to be
a likely starter for the congressional
sweepstakes up in the Duluth district.
If he has the staying qualities he may
yet surprise Page Morris. Jadam is
not all a joke, and, although he has
been in retirement since last fall, it
may develop that the more or less Ven
cradle Bede is not nearly dead. Lake
field Standard.
Bede seems to be strong with g. good
many of the Republican papers in his
and other districts, and in the primary
election his strength as candidate
against his arch enemy, Morris. may
prove not to be limited to the press.
Should Adam get the nomination, though,
he would then have a more bitter fight
than ever. with chances Of his defeat
promising.
Editor c. E. Vasaly, of the Little Falls
Herald. had been mentioned as a pos
sible Democratic candidate for congress
in the Sixth district. He is an active
man, and it is said If nominated would
make a good race. The Democrats are
not talking candidates as much as their
Republican brethren.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-14
THE WEALTHY DANaEnarls en.As

THE WEALTHY DANGEROUS CLASS.
Mr.. James ]. Hill, discussing the ex-
traordinary events of the past week in
the Stock exchange opened a published
interview with the following language:
This has been terrible work. 7 cannot
ma words to express my opinion There
a I.Ibo some men In this country tonight
VINO must settle with their consciences
ana they are welcome to what thew VIII
Sc. want no money taken as money
n m@S Iak lei thursday. There will be no
woo nave come to believe that money
can Go anything in this country IF we
nave nave re reached t; that point, then money
harm. am willing to see money shorn
OF Sucn power. [ have no wish to have
that kind of power"
To this Mr.. Hill added immediately his
opinion that legislation would be soon
adopted which would put an END to such
occurrences.
There are those in the newspaper pro-
fession and outside, and in this imme-
date vicinity too, who profess to be in
fuenced by very high standards of public
e'hlcs' That have sustained, or at least
have done all in their power to sustain
the operations of the lnen producing tha
awful results to which Mr.. HII rcfe,s
Ihese men may be left, as Mr.. Hill leaves
their principals, to settle their conduct
with their own consciences. This class
Oh men have much of denunciation, tn
expend on Mr.. Hill, as they have on all
other men occupying anything like his
relationship toward commercial life, pro-
Vided, OF course, that the persons 50
denounced by them do not belong to their
particular clique. They are mainly re-
sponslble for an unhealthful condition
of public feeling which prevails among
certain classes of society regarding the
rights and immunities of those who are
reputed wealthy.
Such men ought to read the Ianeuaeo
mere imputed to remarkable man who
has spent his entire Life in this COM
munlty and who in his personal charac-
teristics is known to every man in the
city who is over forty years of age or
who has made his residence here
for the past twenty wears. II
would do them much good if
they should reflect upon it SERIOUSLY and
follow the precepts which it lays down.
1t would be good for them and for So
ciety, too. if the predictions of Mr.. Hill
should prove true that legislation will
be adopted before long which will deal
with them and their performances.
Unhappily 1t has come to pass. as sue-
gested by Mr.. Hill, that men believe in
the omnipotent power of money. Indeed tna
man Is becoming more and more rare
every day in this country in personal re-
lationship who does not so believe. What
ever the form of activity he may repre-
sent; however essential to the public
welfare the honorable and upright con-
duct of his undertakings may be the or
binary man is being taught, largely
through the influence of those who pre-
cipitated this panic, that the ultimate
rule of all business effort is to acquire
wealth and to uR it without reference
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-14

organization which has ever Travelled.
One hundred and twenty-five additional
people are engaged here, and Manager
A. M. Palmer brings two experts to re-
hearse these people before the company
arrives. Manager Scott is perplexed az
to where he is to put these 800 people.
They all have to make one Or moro
changes of costumes. But he has five
more days to solve this, and solve it no
declares he will
The company travels by q special train
Of ten cars. There is Mr. Mansfeld's
private car, four sleepers for the COM
pany, car load Of trunks for the no.
tells and four more baggage carloads Of
scenery and paraphernelia to mount on
the stage. There are twenty-one sets Of
scenery for Henry V" and Mr.. Scott
will reinforce Mr. Mansfield's staff by
thirty extra stage hands.
The curtain will rise at 7:45 each even
ing The last curtain will fall at HIS
the first night and about II the next two,
for after the first night the stage force
will be familiar with local conditions
The audience sees none of the changes
of scene. They are all accomplished re-
hind the heavy draperles of the tableau
curtains.
Among the interesting people In the
Mansfield company are three French
players, whom he engaged from Paris es-
pecialIy for this season. They return
to their home theater next month. AS
those familiar with 'Henry "" remen-
Der one source of the fun in this divert
ing play of the conquest of France Is tho
fact that the French speak no English
and the English speak no French. Mr.
Mansfield wants as good French spoken
as English.
Seats will go on sale on Thursday at >
a. M. and it is worth special attention
that though the prices everywhere else
that Mansfield has given his great pro
duction of Henry "" have been $3.50
and 50, Mr.. Scott has secured a scale
from so cents to g.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-14
AROUND THE HOTELS.

At the Merchants'-E. r. Smith, Du-
luth; T. L. Maxwell, Duluth: L. f. Lam
mers, Fargo; w. J. Lewis, Staples; VIII
liam Lineaweayer, Detroit A f. Ferris,
Bra1nerd; e. DazeI, Cloquet; e. L. MI
chaels, Mandan, N D.; E. M. LandCn,
Livingston, Mont; o. z. Anderson and
wife, Glendive, Mont; Mrs. A J. Eley,
Detroit; Sid B. Barteau, ZumbrOta; y. r.
MILAN. o. D. Comstock, Bismarck; P.
H. Hough, La Crosse; T. Moran and
wife, Green Bay, Wis; J. W. Hume
and wife Green Bay, Wis; w. II. Grand
and wife, Grand Forks; J. - Howard
Sank Center; D. F. Miller and wife,
Grand Forks; j. Strain, Havre, Mont;
A. A. Imam, Glasgow, Mont. B. O.
Seymour, Crank Forks; G. E. SanbUrn,
River Falls, Wis; Andrew Larson, River
Falls, Wis; A, o. Whipple, 1EEyil's Lake;
w. B. Dickey, Zumbrota; Theodore NJ.
Casey. Spring Valley, Wis; A. z. Weis-
koff, Fargo; D. j. Campbell, Crookston;
Frank NJ Thomas, Duluth; C. A. Sund-
berg. Marquette, Mich; C. F. Jasper and
wife. Duluth. ~ " 80 anu
At the WindEor-J. w. Blakeslee, Sioux
City; F. w. Rogers, Red Lake; J. II.
Bum, Lanesboro; G. j. Johnson. Des
Skinner. Duluth; G. L. Brown, Morris;
Luther Thompson and wife, West
Union. To-; T. ]. Hoff. Columbus, Wis;
George w. Granger, Rochester.
At the Clarendon-Wm. Downing. Win
nipeg; c.; A: Gilman, st. Cloud; j. H.
Forest. J. H Fleming, Eau Claire;
JOS P. LuTneys, Princeton; William
Kelly Jr., Stewartville; James A. Har-
ris. owatonna; Jacob Finney. Waba-
Donnell, r. s. Knebel, West Superior.
At the Ryan-G. w Wallin. Duluth;
A. T. Edwards, Mayville, N. D. S. D.
Anderson, Detroit; w. II. Hoydon and
wife. Des Moines; N. B. Patten and
wife. Montana T. H. Simmons. G. G..
Greene. j. M. Grimm, F. 8. Metcalf and
wife. A. 3. Samuelson and wife, w.
w. D. Anderson, o. Sackett. Cedar Rap
ids. To-; A. e. Grant and wife Fari-
bault; W. F. Reed, Glendive, Mont.
John GilLe, Butte, Mont: F. e. Swift.
Sault Ste. Marie; James Gwinney. West
Bay City. Mich; Cal E. G. Prior. Vic
toria, b. c.; w. H Denney and wife.
Duluth.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-14

to any consideration save the desires Of
its possessor.
When men of large property possess
sions inveigh against opinions which
seek to limit the privileges inhering in
extended wealth they should remember
that those who express them are often,
if lot always, influenced by the con-
duct of men such as those who wan
tonly brought such suffering on their
fellow creatures through their remorse-
less efforts to control the ownership Of
great railroad system. Even now,
with the record of brutal disregard Of
others rights which they have left be-
hind, the only feeling to which those
men seem capable of giving expression
is the one of pride that, as they aver,
they still maintain control of the prop
erty that was the object of their des-
perate gamble
Such as they constitute what Theodore
Roosevelt has aptly designated the
wealthy dangerous classes. It is their
example more than any other single
force which is bringing such demoraliza-
ton on the moral sense of the people
that most of US are disposed to sink
every consideration in the hope of ac-
curing wealth
1t will be a splendid day for the Amer
lean people when the spirit to which
Mr.. Hill appeals, of devotion to the obi
cations which mans callings and re-
lations toward his fellow men impose on
him can be made to count for what
they should count for Then crime will
be crime in the general estimation,
whether committed by rich or poor, and
a mans word in business transaction
will pass current for more than a dicer's
cath
The pride of calling and of Individual
effort in any given direction is fast pass
ing away. Anything which can be done
to stay It's passing will be to the gain
of. society Should the prevailing tend
ency continue, which men of property
are doing so much to cultivate toward
measuring all values by dollar yard
stick, the only safety which society can
ind will lie in an appeal to the protective
legislation which Mr.. Hill suggests.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-14
CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS
Days Proceedings AT the National
Conference at Washington.


Conference at Washington.
WASHINGTON, May 1S.-The general
session of the national conference Of
Charities and Corrections today was de-
voted to to a discussion Of the division
of work between public and private char
ity. The report Of the committee on this
subject, presented by Prof. Frank A.
Fetter, Of Cornell university, commended
that where the plan Of state subsidy Of
private institutions has gained an en-
trance its early abolition is the end to be
labored for Comptroller Bird S. Coler,
of New York, delivered an interesting
address on the subsidy problem in New
York city. He said that by it the city
had been greatly improved by intrust-
ing it's treatment to local committees.
Under Visiting Needy Families IN
Their Homes" DR.. Lee K. Frank. super
intendent of the Hebrew charity OF New
York, discussed unusual forms.
The meeting Of the Junior Republic
was discussed by DR.. Thomas NJ. Osborne,
one of the members of that institution.
DR.. Chaplin, of Westboro, Mass: Mrs.
Julia Work, of Plymouth Ind. and 9th
ers spoke.
A section meeting was held in the after
noon at Columbian university, the topic
being alcohol as a Cause OF Degenera-
cy" Mrs Ophelta L. Arnlgh, superin-
tendent of the state home for Juvenile
offenders at Geneva, ILL.,, read the chief
paper
Tonight. at the general session 1T
Foundry church, the conference consid-
cred the subject Of Needy Families iN
Their Homes"
Mrs. jeffrey Bracket, president Of
the department of charities and corrac-
lions Of Baltimore, read a paper on
present opportunities for training in
charitable work. The report Of tine com
mittee on needy families in their homes
was made by the chairman, Miss Zilppa
D. Smith, general secretary OF the as
ISOLATED charities Of Boston. It Is said
there is need of urging the state to es-
tablish a colony for detectives or the
school board to provide a special class
for backward children. There is a large
group, the broken or imperfect families.
They number nearly half those dealt
With by a general charitable society.
Something can be done, the report said,
to restore family ties, strengthening in
the community the instinct Of protection
and support toward mothers and fathers
and between brothers and sisters Which
must be the chief reliance against other
aged or disabled persons falling into
need.
The subject also was discussed in an
interesting paper by Prof. John Graham
Brooks, OF Cambridge, Mass. He paid
some attention to the forms Of charity
which require investigation, registration
and friendly visiting. The poor, he said,
will never take kindly to Investigation"
no duty Of the visitor requires mora
delicacy and tact. The first need is TO
know what has happened to bring the
family to want
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-14

if he had lucrative position on one
Of the roads in Minnesota. "Why you
can't imagine, If you have never seen
it what that desert is like and how
intolerable the heat becomes in the
middle of summer. yes and even in the
spring and fall. The great alkaIi
plains spreading out fer miles. fairly
glisten with the mirage, AMI the sun
pelts down on your back at the rate
Of a mile q minute Il always hated
weather out there, but now I am be-
ginningtO be real fond of weather" sail
the Mohavan.
Interesting tales these travellers had
to relate ard it was not stranNe that
most Of them bore upon tho weathe-
question, since so many different kinds
is represented by the gathering. Incl
dentally the st. Paul hotels came IN
for some good weli-r6unded plaudits
from the crucStq
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-14
HENRY Y. COMING.
ANLERICtA's GREATEsT ACTOR
BRINGS HIS GROWING Eff
FORT TO ST. PAUL.

king Richard" Mansfield will be here
next Monday. He will be seen for three
appearances in the magnificent Shaket-
pearean war play, Henry ""
This tour of Mansfield in Henry V"
may be looked upon as decided educa-
tional event He has transcribed all
precedents IN this production and no
brings 1t to all the countrywide popula-
ton who cannot come to him His COM
pany and production are Identical with
the original. This generation has never
before seen Shakespeare's Henry v" and
perhaps the next VIII not. The invest
ment demanded by it's battle scenes, pro
cessions, long cast equipment Of extra
people and other accessories is too great
for any but, the unique artists of pc
riod, such as Mansfield, to indulge. But
in the interesting detail of the pictorial
environment the act of the central actor
and his fellowplayers must not be over
looked.
Mansfield brings to S.. Paul a company
of 167 people, much the largest dramatic
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-14
SOUTH AMERICAN MONROE noe
TRINE

Much ink is being wasted by the press
discussing the probable invasion Of
South America by European powers for
the purpose OF colon,z ation. We are
told that the Italians are swarming into
Argentine and that the Germans are
about to take possession of Brazil. Grave
ly the jingo press tells us that already
25'O0o Germans have settled in South
Brazil and that instead of assimitatine,
with the Brazilians they form communi-
ties by themselves with the intent Of
some day offering the whole republic IN
the German empire as a Christmas
present. To prevent the consumma+ion
OF this dastardly conspiracy on the part
or Germany the government of the
United States Is asked to call a halt in
the name of the once potent Monroe doc
trine
our orthodox friends in the Republic
an camp hang to the Monroe doctrine
as If it were a part of their confession
Of faith They seem to forget that all
man-made doctrines change when the
circumstances which gave rise to them
nave undergone a complete evolution.
The Monroe doctrine was never intended
to protect the South American renub,,o.
from the aggression of European powers
only SO far as that aggression was a
threat to our own national safety If
was a declaration designed to aid the
propagation of Republican principles Of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-14
EDWARD VII AND KANSAS.
His Majesty Again Acknowledges
sunfIOwer Resolution OF symDatI,,,

His Majesty Again Acknowledges
sunfiOwer Resolution OF Sympathy.
TOPEKA. Kan, May 13-Gov. Stanley
today received a letter written by For
eign Minister Lansdowne at the reouest
OF King Edward VII, thanking the Kan
sas legislators for the resolution Of SYM
pathy over the death OF Queen Victoria
This 10 the third communication the leg-
islators have received from King Ej-
ward in answer TO their resolution u
sympathy. In the first they were thank
ed for their sympathy and their Iowa.
ty.' They objected 10 this phraseoIogv
which placed them In the attitude OF H..
Ing loyal to the British throne and tho
kings letter was expunged from the rec
ords. The king heard Of this action ana
Immediately expressed his regrets to Am
bassador Joseph Fl. Choate. explaining
that subordinate had sent out the
wrong letter of thanks to the Kansas
legislators. The letter received today is
an acknowledge ment IN proper form Of
the resolution of the Kansans