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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1902-02-18
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25
COST OF LIVING.

Students OF political and economic cues
tons have applied the cold test of mar
ket reports to the alleged prosperity of
which We have heard so much during
the last few years Of Republican rule.
The result of the investigation is rather
startling. 1t shows that the cost of Iiv-
ing has increased almost, if not quite, 50
per cent since the election of Mckinley
the first time. e-.s
If this be so, and there seems no reason
TO doubt the accuracy of the figures,
which appear in reliable journal the
Werkingman can easily figure up how he
has ''prospered" during the same time.
Unless his wages have increased 60 Der
cent-and Who will say it has?-he is
worse off than before our Wanted era oe
prosperity" began.
But it is not denied anywhere that the
monoroles owing their organization and
existence to the favcritism secured under
the Dingley tariff law have 'prospered'
amazingly. There are trusts in the land
today with q total capitalization Of $1,000.
0G0000-at least half of which is watered-
which are making excessive dividends on
their watered stock. 1t is held by many
who have given the subject close study
that these trusts-which deal in the nee
essary articles entering into everyday
life OF the working classes-extort inter
est an $1,000, ,ooo worth of watered stock
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25
CANNOT GET QUORUM
cT,AUsSEN INVEsTIG ALTON COMMIT
TEE MAKES ANOTHER TRY.

Another attempt to get the Claussen IN
yestigation committee together was mado
Yesterday, but it was without results. or
the seven members of the two council
bodies, only one, Assemblyman DIX
made his appearance. and a postpone
ment had to be taken
Since the charges against the engineer
ing department were made public by the
state bank examiner four attempts to get
the committee together have been made
but in each case without results. Some or
the members, it is said, are reluctant to
mix in the controversy. This hesnancy
has brought an offer from Mr.. Claussen
to have the committee reduced to three
members and allow them to make the
investigation as convenient.
The impression is strong that Mr.
CIaussen will retire from the office or
city engineer without The charges ever
being inquired into. The councils au-
thority in the premises is limited, and
the majority of the members do not feel
like wasting time looking into them. In
an attempt to deny the charges made,
Mr.. Claussen has been busy securing af-
fdavits from those who, it Is claimed
received money but never worked for tho
city.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

WHAT THEY C1LL ARGUMENTS.
The public is informed in q more or
less adequate way Of the claims and con-
tentions of the representatives of the sug-
ar interests with reference to the pend
ing measure OF reciprocity with Cuba.
They have Just been stated before con-
gressional committee
The real character and extent of the
arguments of the domestic sugar growers
or at least of those who speak for them
are more fully set forth in a protest
copies of which have been distributed
among the daily papers of the country
1t is signed flames D. Hill, Chairman
Committee on Resolutions"
The protest goes to the very root of the
question of tariff and reciprocity. and
places itself squarely. as does the present
administration, against tariff reductions
of every Kind whether made as such or
effected through reciprocity treaties. Here
is the language:
And we protest against concessions. by
reciprocity, or otherwise, which aim to
IEQute Tie IdEBI Oh agricultural prod
uctS, and against any course which tends
TO injure our home industries.
There is no mistaking this. Tt is the
sum of all arguments in this behalf, and
it negatives practically every other con-
sideration advanced by those who call
themselves the producers of cane sugar in
the United States against granting the
prayer of the Cubans. 1t is of little use
TO ask man to state his reasons why
he objects to a given thing when he says
in so many words that he objects to it
on every ground.
The committee represented by Mr. Hill,
however. condescends to argue so far as
TO state the following considerations as
influencing the opposition:
We protest against their demands, be-
cause they will result in establishing a
rate of tariff on agricultural products
from Cuba, for all time, and which will
continue to injure Us, so long as the tar
in shall last. The appeal from Cuba ig-
n0res the continuing effect of the tariff
change, as it pretends that it asks solely
Tor aid for this year, to enable its war
worn people to resume the cultivation of
its soil. 1t would make it appear that
the fertility of Cuban soiIs had been de-
stroyed by the war. What that fertility
really is can be judged by its brilliant
past, where in spite of export and tax
exactions, and other spoliations. under its
oppressors it made the colossal fortunes
Of its planters, and won, for Cuba, tie
title Of the Queen of the Antilles" How
much more must it prosper, starting out
zee Of all public debt under its own be-
government with its natural aid
rs OF soil and climate. which will
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

again, and shortly, array it in ali its
glory, and make it once more the Gem
of the Seas"
There is not single statement of fact
in this presentation of argument which
is not open to serious question. Cuba
does not ask for the relief sought 'for
all tine" They do not pretend that they
want ii only for year. They do not
urge that it is necessary to enable them
to resume the cultivation of the soil.
They dc not pretend that the fertility Of
Cuban soil has been destroyed by the
war They do not know, and no one
knows, where they will find a market
for their chief products if these ports
are closed to them, which will be ade-
quate or nearly adequate to the financial
demands that must be met from the out
set if we close our doors upon them. Ii
we are to meet their pleadings with the
blunt proposition which these people throw
at them that we cannot suffer any re-
duction, through reciprocal arrangements
or otherwise, of our existing tariffs, we
might better undo all we have done and
return the Cubans to the condition of en-
slavement from which we rescued them.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25
TODAY'S WEATHER.

Ninnesota-Fair Saturday; colder IN
eastern portions; Sunday fair, continued
cold; fresh nOrtherly winds.
Montana-Fair in eastern; snow in west
ern portion Saturday, continued cold;
Sunday fair and cold; northerly winds.
Upper Michigan-Fair Saturday, except
snow near Lake Superior; colder, with a
cold wave; Sunday fair continued cold;
fresh westerly winds.
Wisconsin-Fair; colder Saturday; Sun
day fair, continued cold; fresh westerly
Iowa-Fair; colder Saturday; Sunday
fair, continued cold; northerly winds.
North Dakota-FaIr; continued cold Sat
urday and Sunday; northerly to eastecly
winds.
South Dakota-Fair; continued cold Sat
urday and Sunday; northerly to easterly
winds.
st. Paul - Yesterdays observations,
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau. st. Paul p. j.. Lyons, observer for
the twenty-four hours ended at Z o'clock
last night-Barometer corrected for tenn
perature and elevation: Highest temper
allure, II; lowest temperature, 8; average
tempera ture. 10; daily range. Ii: barome-
ter. 30.2S; humidity, Sc; precipitation, D;
: p. m, temperature, 10; p. m, wind,
north: weather, partly cloudy.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25
HAVE CAPTURED ALL FOREIGN
TRADE.

Senator Hale is fast winning a reputa-
ton fer radicalism of statement When
he declared recently in the senate that
the American volunteer soldiery should
be done away with as a prerequisite 20
our becoming ''great war power he at
least succeeded in winning the attention
of the entire country. It was a notable
circumstance that his party friends in the
too willing to express acquiescence in his
strange view, while certain of the DEM
ocrats present resented his suggestion as
being an offensive expression of the spirit
of militarism which underlies the entire
imperialist programme
The senator's later statement is as re-
markable and quite as untenable in its
way as the other. In the debate n
Thursday the senator from Maine, dis
cussng the measure to establish de-
| partment of commerce, made the astound-
ing statement that the United States had
already captured all the foreign trade
| worth having. He added to this that in
| his judgment we did not need further
| action to secure foreign markets for our
| products and did not even need additional
| markets.
OF course no position of this kind as
| sumed by a Republican leader in con-
gress could be allowed to go unchallenged
by his associates, and It is to be said 1sr
Senator Hanna that by the time he had
| responded to the contentious Of the Maine
senator there was not much left of that
gentleman's claims.
1t is just such statements as this of
Senator Hale which have been effectual
in arousing deep and abiding prejudice
| against US among the people of Europe.
| We are constantly Dragging about our
! achievements; and when we are brought
| down to actual specification of ouc own
glories. the poverty of our achievements
! is too often far from justifying any
boastfulness whatever.
| Senator Hale represents an important
! element among the administration states
men. That element is now committing
| itself, but in a more qualified form, to the
doctrine that foreign trade is not after
| all of such superative Importance. II
| the administration is to successfully meet
| the attacks on the tariff which those
| who believe in tariff revision and reci-
| prOcity are putting forward every day, it
| will, of course, become necessary to min
! imize the necessity of making any tariff
! concessions whatever. And what better
/ or simpler way is there to this end than
! to insist that we have ali the trade of
| the foreigners already which is worth
! having? If, when occasion demands, this
1 line of argument is supplemented by the
| additional contention that in asking the
government for ship subsidies we are
merely seeking to do our foreign shipping
in our own bottoms, it is possible that
revision and reciprocity will be put to
rest, at least for few years more, in the
| same grave.
| It is a mad statement at best which
| Senator Hale has just made about our
| foreign trade; but, for those who seek.
| there will be found in it good deal of
| the method of protectionism.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

Mr.. Nelson win. his friends say, be a
candidate for city clerk, il the complex
ION OF the new council is Republican
y. w L. Corning. boosted in to the DO
hl1cal area again by the alleged indorse-
eienl 81 the Roosevelt club, yesterday
nied his certificate of nomination to the
board of aldermen from the Seventh
ward
Fritz Lehman. of the Sixth ward. has
renounced his intention to stand for the
democratic nomination to the assembly.
yesterday he requested County Auditor
Ooilnson 70 remove his name from the
primary ballot. His will be stricken
from the ballot, but under an opinion by
assistant Corporation Attorney Griggs
MS ming fee, $40, which has been turned
over to the city, may not be refunded.
MT. Lehman assigns i'll health as the rea-
son for his withdrawal
Senator w. 3. Dickev os zurohrota
who was at the Merchants yesterday,
thinks the extra session will consume at
least thirty working days, if its work il
strictly confined to consideration of the
report of the tax commission.
Senator Dickey thinks the tax bin
should not alone be considered by sec
lions In committee, but that the people
'-0N-AN OO e1AAOWcO L6dTInbS through Una
intermediary of delegations He said yes
terday: II think it would be manifestly
Unfair to railroad the bill through with
cut giving all sides a chance to be heard
Every interest affected, and they ara
many, has right to its say for or
against the provisions of the bill, and [
90 not believe that the legislature will
consent to any railroading methods that
might work an injustice to anyone"
Senator Dickey Is one Of the old guard
slated for retirement by the Republican
machine. The Goodhue county organiza-
ton has decided that he must go. but it's
members are in a wrangle over a candi-
date for his shoes. The rural districts
claim the place because Dickey IS from
Zumbrota, and the Red Wing Republi.
cans think it belongs to them. Dickey
has been persona non grata with both
the Goodhue county machines since the
senatorial fight year ago, when he for
got both Heatwole and Bixby and sig.
nalized himself as the sole supporter of
Gen. Hubbard.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25
GREENROOM GOSSIP.

Miss Georgia Wells, a popular member
of the stock company of the American
theater, retires from that organization at
the end of the present season. Miss Wells
says she has played more parts in New
York than any living actress something
over 200 within the last five years-at the
Murray Hill and American theatef's
Miss Henrietta Crosman was specially
ing her recent engagement in Mistress
Nell' at Washington. Several of her rela-
tives won distinction in both branches
of the service. Old and famous comrades
Crosman and of her father, Mai. George
H. Crosman, retired, were prominent
among the boxholders. Miss Crosman was
the guest of honor at several society
functions during the week.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

That archduchess who resigned her
chance to be empress in order to marry
the man Of her choice has some consoIa-
ton. She got million in cash, presents
worth million more and an income of
quarter of million annually. She
should be able to get along wlhout great
Inconvenience, unless her husband should
prove to be an incumbrance.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25
UNDER INDICTMENT.
True Bills Found Against Chicago
Parties Who Dealt in Alleged In
surance "InfOrmatiOnr

AEuc pAAlS round against Chicago
Parties Who Dealt in Alleged In
surance E'InfOrmatiOn.
The two managers Of a POLICY Hold
ers' Union in Chicago have been in
dicted for obtaining money on false pre-
fences. The Union" was one of the usual
order in which the furnishing of myth
cal information to policy holders, and en-
deavoring to stir them into discomfort
with the companies, was supplemented in
this case by the offer to sell territory and
rights in the Union all over the coun-
try.
A Southern gentleman who had bought
some Of these rights alleged that he
had been outrageously swindled, and the
Chicago grand jury has agreed with him.
SoutherIers are historical stick1ers for
rights, but do not seem to care to pay
for wrongs, and in this instance the over
confident chaps who ran the Policy
Holders Union" seem to have bumped IN
against an exceedingly tough proposition
1t has been said many times before but
Will evidently bear repeating, that the
best place for policy holder to acquire
information concerning his contract is
of the company in which he is insured
There isn't a life organization in the
country that isn't glad to let any of It's
members know at any time the status
of his policy, and that, too, free of all
expense. The idea of paying irresponsible
schemers a fee for information they do
not possess, and have no means of at
tanning, is something that goes with
bunco. gold bricks and other perennial
sources of unhaepiness to the over cred
ulous.
The smartest men in the world are
found among life insurance policy hold
ers, and nobody ever hears Of their turn
ing to outside claim agents or
Unions composed of one or two slick
fellows for information concerning their
contracts. The policies themselves, as q
matter Of fact, usually tell the whole fair
and admirable story to the owner there
of, and when he thinks they do not or
does not understand the agreements, the
companies will set him right in prompt
and commendable order.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25
SATURDAY, JAN. %, 1902.

An esteemed contemporary suggests
that Gov. Gen. Taft can control
the Filipinos with $4,000 policemen if he
calls the other $1,000 soldiers constables.
1t is notable fact that no move has
been made to reduce the fghtir- force
in the Philippines to the number men
toned by Taft
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

Iowa having wrested political prestige
from Ohio, there was nothing left for the
Buckeye state but to claim that the tele-
phone service in it's towns was worse than
in Chicago. The Chicago papers deny
this. too.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

If Prince Henry shows up in Washing
ton it wouldn't be q bad idea for con-
gress to adjourn out of respect for him.
And he might have more respect for con-
gress if he didn't see it in action
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

Senator Proctors avowal that lie IA
vors tariff concessions to Cuba is en-
couraging, since he has an ingrained
habit of landing on the winning side.
The Cubans should chirk up. The Ve~-
monter seldom gets left.-Springf ield Re-
publican.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

We are somewhat alarmed over the re-
port that Lake Erie is getting lower
year by year. The people Of the cities
along the coast will be put to the neces-
sity of finding a substitute for water for
drinking purposes if the decrease con-
Times
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

Berlin is going to try the American
pneumatic mail tube system, regardless
of the risk that a letter addressed TO
Herr Observation-Disclosures
Observation-Disclosures may get stuck some
day in the tube.-Boston Globe
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25
Reside Being sexeral others.

An old man recently informed Mr.
Rockefeller's Sunday school that there
were three kinds of poor-the devil S
poor, the Lords poor. and the poor
devils Some enterprising beggars will
row endeavor to prove that they are
all three kinds at once.-Washington
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25
TO OUR FRIENDS.

Anyone unable to secure
copy of II Ii G O b On eny
railroad train leaving or en-
favor on the management by
reporting the fact to the bus-
iness office. Telephone, MaIn
I0c5.
Subscribers annoyed by Ir.
regular or late delivery of
II h e G o b VIII confer n IA
N0F on the management by re-
porting the fact to the business
office. Telephone. Main 1865.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

King George, of Greece, is the latest
victim Of an attack by an outcast in
human form. The would-be assassin
was thwarted and no harm was done the
king. Details are meager, but it seems
to have been the deed of some harebrain-
ed crank on the order Of the man who
shot President Mckinley.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

Speaker Henderson declared to a dele
cation Of Iowa farmers that there would
be no revision of the tariff. The steel
trust and the other industrial monopo1ies
are safe under Republican administra-
ton
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

The British farmers are raising a big
outcry about the danger of starvation
in case England should be at war with a
hrst-rate naval power Well, if England
has nothing to depend upon but the prod
ucts Of her own scant acres, the condi-
ton which will be called into existence
certainly could not be deserted as one of
affluence.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

That Great Falls cashier who went
short $4,000 on copper stocks will not be
catalogued as a copper king.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

Japan now proposes to go Germany
one better and send her crown prince on
a visit to the United States.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

st. Louis seems to have adopted the
earthquake method of advertising It is
not calculated to draw people that way
during the fair season. Something more
cheerful should be tried.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

from tie consumers of the United States.
And while there have been advances in
wages over the pay secured by working
men during the panic these advances
have not oAirated 60 per cent NOT
by half OF it.
Times are better than they were during
the days OF the panic, of course; nobody
denies that. But the fact is as plain as
day that the most of the prosperity. has
come to the berefic;aries Of the Dlngley
tariff law, to-wit: the vast monopolies
known as the il dL strial trusts. And
when the reaction conies-as come it must
these same trusts will be the last to
feel the pifch. Besices. the holders of
the trust stock will have laid up for just
such an occs sion the millions they have
extorted from the consumers.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

Should the senate ratify the treaty
with Denmark the population of the
United States will soon be increased by
another job lot of half civilized brown
people who can't take care of themselves
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

In view of the repeated reports that
the Beers are suing for peace on any
terms it is probable we shall soon hear
of some of the flercest kind of fighting in
South Africa
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

Venezuela has bristled up to France
this time. That irritating little republic
will provoke real trouble some day and
then appeal to Uncle Sam to take care of
her
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25
Hnrd fo ConviUce.

Senator Hanna continues to be skep-
teal about these ruHanrs OF his retire
ment from politics. w asi.ngton Even
ing Star.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

Paris reports the sale of 500 tons Of
snails during the year 1901. The old town
is not SO slow, either.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

Assernblyman Charles Nelson yesterday
reaffirmed the statement that he will not
be a candidate for reelection. Mr. Nell
san has placed himself unequivocably in
support of +. B. Dorian for mayor, and
has served two terms in the assembly
His original intention to wait for the Re
publican nomination for county treas
urer has been somewhat modified. and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25

Considering the attitude which Ameri-
can readers have taken toward some of
the current French fiction, it is but rea-
sonable to expect that the Frenchmen
would sooner or later take shy at our
own literary genius. When American So
called novelists think proper to go to
France for their subjects, it is not only
the duty of the French to object, but a
general kick should be registered by
Americans themselves.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-25
nnes wan SAND KNOW Thisr

Think Of an erstwflle octopus fighter
like e.x-Goy Hogg being rated, even on
paper, at ssh, 1000, 9o0.---Nashville American.