The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-28


ed in saving the community the humilia-
ton which will be involved if we do not
take full part in the meritorious I'M
dertaking. The people of no community
in the country revere the memory of the
martyred president more sacredly than
the people of this city, and no people,
T h e G 10 b e believes, are more ready
to show their devotion than they.
Soldier politicians will never be popular
with the American people. If Gen.
Wheaton used the language imputed to
him recently in press dispatch, he
shows himself to be one of this class.
and should be promptly suppressed by
his superiors. Had his statement been
the reverse of what it was, and he had
approved of what Prof. schurman had
said, how long would he remain with
out the censure of his superiors? Echo
answers, How long?"
According to the imaginative writer of
the Dispatch at Washington, when the
decks were cleared the attorney for the
state of Minnesota handed his brief to
the supreme court, and the attorney for
the Northern Securities company handed
up his brief, and then the court took a
recess. If it did not take any more time
to clear the decks than it did to hand
up the briefs, there could not have been
an all-powerful amount Of clearing to be
done.
The storing of dynamite in the heart of
the city of New York by the subway
contractors shows among other things,
that the authorities of that city, even
when of the reform type, do not learn
much by experience. The lesson of the
wrecking of that building on Dey street
some months ago, with it's accompanying
loss of life, evidently did not leave
very enduring impression.
The petition of the school authorities
that their institutions be no longer
classed as among the charitable and
penal Institutions of the state is rather
peculiar No doubt the majority of the
supreme court which made the class1-
fication will not be especially offended
over this novel way of setting their de-
cree aside.
The selection of Fred G. Ingerson as
bank examiner is a tardy recognition of
the services which Mr. IngersoH has been
rendering his party in this city and state
each succeeding election for the past
fifteen years, and of his excellent stand
ing and extended experience as COM
mercial lawyer.
The action of that cattle-raising con-
Germ in South Dakota in building barb
wire fence some 25O miles long around
the public domain with the authority of
the interior department naturally sug-
gests the possibility of that or some like
concern or combination of concerns fenc-
ing in one Of the states for their uses
"
r. P. O'Connor ought to have accom-
panied the gentlemen of his party who
are about to visit the United States. He
would no doubt arouse some enthusiasm,
as his speech, delivered a day or two ago,
is the only one from the Irish benches
for some time past that has had any
''go" to it.
That petition of the shippers of Mime
sofa against cut-throat competition
seems very funny to the Canadian rail-
road representatives. Competition with
these gentlemen would be still more ac-
ceptable if that which they are now up
against did not threaten to be quite so
effective.
1t is the poor Indian who is now the
object of the commisseration Of the gen
tlemen who oppose the park reserve pro-
posal. Doubtless the Indian accepts the
pionship. Experience has taught Lo
many things in this direction.
Senator Carriers enemies in his own
party are no doubt in favor of civil
service. They evidently have their own
views of the merit system, neither or
not those views will commend themselves
to the boss civil service reformer at the
White house.
The acquittal of the Widow Richardson
is in the usual course. The action of
the jury in her case seems, however, to
u11lGI 1IOul al Lie fSIQ1ClS IOCOlIIly given
on the trial of female homicides in that
there appears to have been evidence to
sustain it.
Those Canadian editors maintained a
discreet silence on the extent of the
emigration from the United States to the
Canadian Pacific country which they ac-
complished by their trip. Their silence
is quite eloquent.
Good story Spoiled.
Lord Salisbury has reputation for be-
ing singularly detached from the world
of men and affairs. 1t has been said that
he has never spoken to Mr.. Morley; il
foreign office, has TO submit to be called