The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-09

world. Their present president Cdr. Har-
riscn) is dimly seeing it; but his horizon
IS limited to the new world North and
South. and so he would intrigue in Can
ada Argentina and Brazil to the eXc;t-
sion OF England. Such a brain wants
| but little to see the true solution He IS
still groping in the dark, but very near
the discovery.
Great America has been taught the
/ lesson Of home rule and Of the success
OF leaving the management of the local
pump to the. parish beadie. He does not
| burden his house of commons with the
responsibility Of cleansing the parish
drains. The present position of the Eng
lish house is ridiculous. You might as
well expect Napoleon to have found time
10 personally count his dirty linen before
he sent It TO the wash and to have re-
counted it upon its return.
1t would have been better for Europe
If Napoleon had carried out his idea If
q universal monarchy. He might have
succeeded il he had hit upon the ilea If
granting self-government to the campo
rent parts"
Dealing with the sacred duty of the
EhgDSh-Speakng world Of taking the re-
sponSIbil1ty for the still unCivilfZed
world, and commenting on the ''neces-
Sf.ry departure from the man Of such
countries as Portugal. Persia and Spain"
VINO are found wanting" Mr.. Rhodes
sad: What scOpei What a horizon Of
work for the next two centuries for the
best energies Of the best people in the
On the matter Of tariffs Mr.. Rhodes was
chdracteristtcally positiVeI
Free Trader, but Sees Tariff Uses.
II noted" wrote he. with satisfaction
that the committee appointed to inquire
into the Mckinley tariff reports that in
certain articles our trades have fallen
off 80 PEI cent. Yet the fools DO not see
that if they do not look out they will
nave England shut out and isolated with
$50 0t@,G00 to feed and capable of internal
! ly supporting about $1,000 900. IF thov na1
a statesman, they would at the present
M melt be commercially at war with
| the United States and would have bOvcot-
| ted the raw product Of the United States
until she came to her senses, and [ say
tbs b. cause I am free trader
Your people have not known their
gains. They possess one-ffth Of the
world and do not know it is slipping
away from them They spend their tine
IN Csc ps sing Mr.. Parrell and Mr. Tam
nsr, the character Of SiI Charles Dixie
en- erS ton for bee I-0dses and nmue
hoe genus. Your supTt me question at
L,-ese Il the character OF the labor vcte
for lie next election. Read the Aus raj
ian bulletins and see where undue pom
derIng to the labor vote may lead YOU.
But at any rate the eight-holIr dues-
ton is not possible without a union oP
the English-speaking world; otherwise
you drive your manufacturers to Bel
GUM, Holland and Germany. lust as Won
nave placed a great deal Of shipping
trade in the hands OF TtsTv nv JoI{r
stringent shipping regulations +"
Here this political win and testament"
as Mr.. Stead calls it aptIy breaks off
Mr.. stead, commenting on this saws.
1T IS rough and inchoate and almost
as uncouth as one Of CromwelPs speech
eS; but the central idea CLOVIS luminous
| throughout Its ideal is the pronunciation
of racial unity on the basis Of the prin-
ciples embadied in the American union"