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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30
FINANcIERINe A CANAL.

The present status of the canal
mand of the republic of Colombia, is
well worthy of consideration The
canal promoters have been able to con-
vince congress and the country, appar-
emily at least, that the salvation of the
transisthmian scheme rested on the
adoption of the Panama route. Now
they and their political hackers are
confronted by the Colombian claim,
that it does not propose to ALLEVIATE the
national territory, as it would be COM
PEELED to do, if the necessary conces-
sion were made. They are not to be put
out of countenance or court by any
such claim, however, and promptly re-
spond by saying that the preference of
the country may and probably will be.
after all, in favor of the Nicarauguan
route.
1t is not hard to believe that the Co.
lombian officials see chance to make
a close trade with this government,
and that the national compunction
about parting with territory may be
set aside by an offer of the necessary
funds. But it is quite plain that a
most elastic system has been worked
by the canal promoters which enabled
them in one contingency to urge one
route and in another contingency an
other and a different route
The average man believed that this
country was now committed entirely
to the Panama route, and that when
the law officers of the general govern
ment passed favorably on the charac-
ter of the title which the Panama con-
Germ was able to give, the whole mat
ter would be ended, and the work
would proceed at once. It must be
revelation to such a man that after all
the Nicarauguan route is now found,
with all its additional expense and all
attending dangers of earthquakes, to
be available as the one to be selected
when the final choice is made.
There has been some tall financiering
done on this transisthmian affair since
Wood Pulp Miller, in the senate few
years ago, stuck up his derricks and
seows down near Greytown and pro-
ceeded to offer them for sale, together
with the suppositious canal route. they
represented, to this government at fig
ures such as would have startled any
but a hardened Republican financier
who had worked his way into the
senate.
And there evidently will be some adj
ditional fanciering, perhaps not quite
so tall, before the politicians in charge
of this subject confide in the people
which of the routes it really is that
they favor.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30
A SHOCKING CHARGE

Senator Mason. of Illinois, cannot
appear just at this time to Republican
vision as an entirely amusing charac-
ter. It has been the custom to portray
that energetic gentleman as something
of a circus performer. He never was
acceptable to the mass of the politi-
clans of his party. The trouble with him
always was and still is that he had a
disposition to take up the popular side
of a given subject and advocate it in
party associates
The tine has now evidently come
when Senator Mason must be taken Sc
riously. At the opening of the cam
paign he branded the governor of ILL
nois as officially dishonest. He public
Iy denounced him as a corruptionist.
The st. Paul G Hob at that time
expressed its surprise and concern that
the executive of one of the leading
states of the Union, declaring, as did
all self-respecting newspapers, wheth-
Ell Republican or Democratic, that the
charge should not be allowed to rest
without disproof, or at least without
challenging proof on the part of Sen
ator Mason.
Not tne word has since been printed
Yates from the charge of bribery and
corruption thus leveled at him. Silence
was thought the only available de-
Tense. But evidently neither Gov. Yates
iican machine fully understood the
man they had to deal with, or they
would have in some way anticipated
the slta neful exposure Of Republican
corruption which was made in the Chi
easso Auditorium on Tuesday evening.
All the accessories to the most SEN
sational and public Indictment of the
Illinois governor were present. The
proof, moreover, was forthcoming.
There was no trap sprung. The am
pIest opportunity had been given, in
deed the amplest opportunity still con-
tinues to be given, to disprove the
charges made. No private citizen would
rest under such a charge an hour
The governor of Illinois has rested
under it for weeks. He can no
longer remain silent unless he is ready
not only to be turned out of Office, but
to be returned to private life with the
brand of corruption forever affixed to
his name.
1t may be that the Republican ma
chine will be able to drive Senator Ma
sen from his place in the senate; but
before it does so, there will be a few
political lives other than that of Ma
son, stamped out beneath the Repub-
lican juggernaut.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30
SULTAN WARNS MISS STONE.

So Miss Stone is not going back to
Macedonia. Miss Stone will regret this
much more than the American people,
who have Elately come to regard her
much as they would a Chicago pork
packer, merely out for the stuff" Of
course the hints going the rounds that
Miss Stone wanted to be kidnapped
and that she was merely going over
again to see. if she couldn't get into
a variation 9of the old trouble are gross
libels. Her theft by the Bulgarians
was on the square with both them and
her, and both are we'll satisfied because
both were well paid forit. The outlaws
got theirs in bulk, Pat Grove style, and
she got hers in monthly checks from an
American newspaper and an Ameri-
can magazine. ~ 81 sf.
f. However,. since. each got all he or
she expected out of the sensation, the
incident may as well be considered
closed. There is extra, reason for TAX
ing this View Of the case because the
sultan has formed decided dislike to
Miss Stone, justly or unjustly, and a
hint which is strong enough to almost
bear the official seal has gone forth
that Abdul Harnid will not permit the
woman to land anywhere in his domain.
Miss Stone and the sultan do not agree
as to religions or the size Of ones
harem, and it is therefore perhaps just
oil hot In fy1f1J
work in widely separated fields.
There are heather to save in Pata-
gonia, in Madagascar and West st.
Paul, and Miss Stone can go on with
her labor OF, landing the benighted neal
to goodness without feeling that Tur-
key, European or Asiatic, furnishes the
only. great field for her laudable work.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30
A CONCLUSIVE ARGUMENT.

There is ample reason for the belief
that the Democratic candidates for
Ramsey county can be elected in every
case, and the county government re-
deemed to Democratic control. 1t is
necessary only that hard and unflag-
ging work should be done in that direc-
ton by every Democrat in the county.
The conviction is abroad among the
voters that the management of our
local affairs can be entrusted with bet
ter results to Democratic officials than
to Republican. The experience of eight
years, both in city and county, sus-
teins that view. To transform the
present prospect into a positive GER
tainty it requires that those voters
who are not bound by party attach
raents in their action on matters of To-
cal concern shall be won over in as
llrge number as possible to the sup
mort OF the excellent men who are pre-
scented through the party for popular
support.
There is an argument, which. If
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30

compliance with the requirements of
the United States homestead law are
lawyers merchants. doctors and per-
sons Of independent means.
No one will criticise the undertaking
of the federal authorities to wrest the
ownership of the land from those who
claim it under bogus titles, such as
the dispatch in question refers to. But
it should not be forgotten that count
less hundreds of thousands of acres Of
the best land on this continent have
been taken away from the people of
the United States through these de-
vices during the entire period of the
control of our national affairs by the
party which now makes it's little
play at enforcing the homestead law,
away amid the swamp and track
less wastes of Beltrami and Itasca.
Those, for instance, in whose interest
a tariff duty of 50 per thousand feet is
now maintained on lumber got the bulk
of their possessions through wholesale
fraud and perjury. For years and years
| the lumber concerns maintained their
| representatives on the public lands pro-
noting perjury and subornation of per-
| jury by the Wholesale in securing con-
| troll OF the grand timber possessions OF
this people, which they hold today,
and which with the aid of an iniqui-
| tous tariff they are administering as
an oppressive monopoly. Through that
| tariff, and through their successful
crimes, those concerns are able to levy
toll on every poor man in the country
who wishes to put up house to shell
ter him.
1t is really a grimly amusing cir
cunstanee that the Republican politi-
! clans of the land offices and the inte-
rior department should not come for
ward on the eve of an election and take
to themselves the virtue of seeking to
reserve the national domain to the use
OF bona fide settlers.
1t is, indeed, a tragic illustration of
the locking of the stable door which is
thus presented to view, in the light of
TIE SIoCAli1S Si0Iy u CIlil1e WHICH re-
cites how the American people were
robbed of their heritage In the interest
of spectators and thieves operating
through successive Republican ma
jorities in congress and through sue
eessive Republican administration OF
| the executive department Of the gen.
eraI government.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30

eous 1T has no excuse for existing and
becomes an intolerable offense
1t is not possible that a drama of
this character can drag It's tainted trail
through the city without arous-
ing protest. I venture to
like myself, felt outraged by the wan
ton and unnecessary Introduction Of
the baldest and most shameless incl
dents, and also for those who, deferred
by household cares or the pressure Of
social or civic duties, felt the protest
but found no time to express it. 1
am an inveterate theater patron and
therefore no prude, though often an
apoiogist, and as such, accustomed to
the double entendre, coarse illusions.
suggestive words and actions unhap-
PLY inseparable from up-to-date stage,
but tolerance has a limit and that linn
it is reached when under q pretense Of
moral teaching it becomes q cess pool
Of contamination. At my right hand
sat a girl OF twelve years, whose COM
ments were pitifully expressive of the
impressions made en- her mind, probab-
ly for life-delight at the spiendor and
beauty of the scarlet woman; the
mother responsible for her presence
there laughed with the loudest.
In front sat two young men of re-
fnement, and during the most deprav-
ed scene-be it told to their lasting
credit-their faces We're grave, as if
they shared with me the suspicion that
il such things could be in such place
the world was all awry.
Behind, and on all sides, We're wom-
en-, apparent ladies, who, during the
same scene-be it told to their shame
laughed boisterously, with the reistak-
en- notion that vulgarity is humor.
It is time to cali halt. Liberty is
de2enerating into license. The times,
like the means of locomotion, are fast
"a moral rapid transit. A nation, like
an individual, progresses gradually to
its fall. The first signs of decadence
extreme luxury, concentrated wealth,
RIGHTEOUSNESS, the pre-e minence of ia
vored classed, lax censorship of public
morals, the unrest Of the masses
are already in threatening evidence.
Like the empires of antiquity we are
rising to a cataclysln OF, unlike them,
are rising TO our opportunity.
Evil increases in default Of protest.
The hand that rocks the cradle yields
a mighty influence. We can dictate
if We choose-how far the stage dare
offend, and while careful to avoid the
eXaggeration of prudery, be firm to
insist that our sons and daughters be
protected from pollution in at least
one playhouse of the city.
Mrs. Marie Cornelia Garfield.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30
HOIST BY HIS OWN PETARD.

When Samuel r. Van SAINT stated in
his letter to the Democratic state cen
trail committee that he was the owner
of capital stock in the foreign corpora
ton known as the Evan SAINT & Mus
ser Towing and Transportation Com
pany of Muscatine. Iowa." he laid the
foundation for his own discontinue.
Every citizen owning capital stock OF
any corporation is assessable on said
holding at the place where he is To-
Gated or resides. Capt. Samuel r.
Van SAINT resides and has his business
headquarters as president of the above
named towing company at Winona.
A copy of his personal property as
sessment list shows that he did not re-
turn for assessment this year dollar
of the stock which he admits he owns.
The statute requires that the per-
sonal property assessment shall con-
tain:
Twenty -ffth-The amount and
value of shares of capital stock of COM
panies and associations not incorpor-
ated by the laws of this state"
A certified copy of Samuel r. Van
SAINTS personal assessment list shows
blank shares and blank dollars valua-
ton under this item!
Admitting for the sake of argument
that he could not be compelled to make
a return for steamboats, and tugs as
tangible property at Winona, which he
did not, where is the capital stock
which he admittedly owns and why is
it not listed for taxation at the only
place where it is assessable to him, in
Minnesota, his place of residence and
business?
Whatever may be the proper place or
places for the payment Of taxes, real
and personal, Of the corporation, this
much Gov. Van SAINT must admit, that
his own personal property in the shape
of capital stock is assessable and tax.
citizen and in which he resides and has
his place of business.
That place is Winona. 10"
That state is Minnesota.
The ownership of the capital stock is
admitted.
The law requiring it's listing for as
sessment is plain.
The fact that it was not listed is
patent.
1t is now up to Samuel R. Van SAINT
to show for what cause he brands the
alleged statement of his tax lodging as
absolutely and outrag eously false!"
It is also up to him to explain to the
voters and taxpayers of Minnesota
why, first, as the president of the Van
SAINT & Musser Towing and Transport
tation Company of Muscatine, Iowa"
whose headquarters are at Winona,
Minnesota, he does not deem Mime
sofa a good enough state for the pay
ment of any part of said corporations
taxes, and, second, why he as resi-
dent owner of capital stock of said
company refuses to list even his own
personal property for assessment and
taxation in the state of his residence,
the only place where his personal prop
erty is assessable.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30

by the board on farm values appears
from the following illustrations:
In OttertafI county, except Fergus
Falls, the raise voted amounted to the
high margin of 80 per cent.
In Lyon county it was so per cent.
In Kanabec county it was SIS per
cent So
In Freeborn.i Meeker and Wabasha
counties It was, so per cent.
In Faribaulte county it was is per
cent. 70. %
In Fillmore, Houston, Kandiyohi,
Kittson, and Pipestone counties it
amounted to 40 per cent.
In Cottonwood county the raise over
and above the returns Of the county
board was IS per cent.
In Chippewa. Lincoln, Marshall, Mar
tin, Nicollet, Swift. and Watonwan it
was 80 per cent
In the bulk of the remaining coun-
ties the raise voted by the state board
over the returns of the local boards
ran from 10 per cent to Is per cent.
Stearns county has a peculiar ex-
perience. The city of Melrose is hoist
ed SO per cent, and the farms and vii
lagos outside Of st. Cloud and Sank
Center are lifted over and above the
returns of the local assessors Is per
cent?
When the farms of Ottertail are
raised 80 per cent and the farms of
Stearns are raised rs per cent by the
vote Of man who refuses to list at
all for assessment his holdings of CAPT
tai stock in the steamboat company Of
which he is. president, it is time to
raise the question of equal taxation.
In the face of such facts, it is GER
tainly right for the farmers and tax
payers of the counties above named
and the rest are in much the same
boat-to ask the question:
Is the president of the Van SAINT
& Musser Towing and Transportation
Company Of Muscatine, Iowa, the prop
er man to have in the chair of COVER
nor as the appointing member of the
state board of equalization?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30
WEATHER FOR TO-DAY.


Minnesota-Fair Thursday; cooler, ex-
cept in northeast portion. Friday fair and
warmer fresh west winds.
Wisconsin-Fair Thursday and Friday:
cooler in west portion Thursday; fresh
south winds, becoming west.
Michigan-ShowerS and warmer Thurs
day. Friday fair; fresh south winds,
Iowa-Fair; colder Thursday. Friday
fair: warmer.
Montana-Fair: warmer Thursday. Fri
day cooler in west portion
North DaRota-Fair; warmer Thursday,
Friday fair.
South Dakota-Fair Thursday and Fri
day
st. Paul Yesterdays temperatures,
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau. St. Paul w. E. Oliver, observer, for
the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock
last night-Barometer corrected for tenn
perature and elevation: Highest temper
ature, So; lowest temperature, IS; average
temperature, Al; daily range, IS; baron-
eter. 1898. humidity, 81; precipitation'
0; p. m. tempera ture, 81; p, r.. wind,
south; weather, partly cloudy.
Yesterdays Temperatures
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30
RIOTS AT PORTO
RICAN REGISTRATION
Many Killed or Wounded and the Fed
eraI Party Shut Out
CompieteIy.

SAN JUAN, Oct. 2s.-Registratien
for elections In Porto Rico was finish
ed on Tuesday. In spite of the strict
est precautions serious riots took place
in few towns.
At San Lorenzo mob attacked the
police, with the result that two Of the
rioters were killed and fifteen men,
among whom were three policemen,
were desperately wounded. The mob
entered the town carrying a corpse at
the head Of the procession.
The police attempted to dispense the
participants In fight at Patillas,
federal town. which was invaded by
large mob of Republicans from Quay
anna, which forcfb1y took possession of
the booths, shut out the Federals and
registered the whole OF the Guayama
non residents party. In the shooting
which ensued four men were badly
wounded, including Corporal Cepero,
of the insuIar police. The Federa1s
were not permitted to register and
were forcibly kept out of the booths.
Practically there was no Federal regis
tration throughout the island.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30

properly enforced, must be conclusive
Democratic success in the county cleo
ton. 1t is that Republican control has
b,en attended by scandals and dishon-
esty throughout; that the faint of cor
agement Of county finances; that DEM
ocrats, wherever elected to county Of
fee, have shown themselves superior to
their predecessors in the same offices,
troll is certain to be followed by the
evil results with which the people of
the county are thoroughly familiar.
This argument is founded on facts
which are beyond dispute.
One Republican official is now flu
gitive from Justice; another convict
in the state prison. Whitehorne is a
fugitive through the exposures of T h e
Globe. Bourne is a convict through
the watchfulness and ability of the
present Democratic county treasurer,
Mr.. Metzdorf, who put the state au-
thorities on inquiry, and by the able
prosecution of him carried on by a
Democratic county attorney-Thomas
R. Kane.
The actual condition of things in the
county auditors Office during the past
six years will probably never be known.
1t certainly never will be known if a
Republican successor is chosen to Au-
ditor Johnson. Just as certainly will
it be known, and thoroughly known, if
Democratic successor is chosen, in
the person OF Mr.. M. f. Kahn.
1t does not require much persuasion
to convince any taxpayer that it is
better for him to have been in office
who will expose and punish crime, than
those whose political interests and as
sociations may lead them to cover
it UP.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30
AM ! MY BROTHERS KEEPER

While ignorance and vice exist
And there are hungry mouths to ill,
And when misfortune's cruel twist
Has strang1ed energy and will.
The truth I set myself to guess:
Am I my brothers keeper? Vest
I would not be myself had not
MY predecessors helped me out.
NV food, my clothes, my all I've got
Are others gifts without a doubt.
NV obligations on me press,
Am I my brothers keeper? Yes!
million minds have worked for good,
Have plucked with sorrow, from the
skies
The things I take for understood
They wrest1ed. accept the prize.
The truth all natures tongues express.
Am I my brothers keeper? Yes!
[Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-30
ASKED TO GIVE THANKS
ON THURSDAY, NOV. 81
President Roosevelt, in ProcIama-
ton, Mentions Causes of Ma
tionaI Gratitude.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 90
President Roosevelt today issued the
following proclamation:
According to the yearly custom of
our people, it falls upon the president
at this season to appoint day of fes-
tival and thanksgiving to God. Over
a century and a quarter has passed
since this country took it's place among
the nations of the earth, and during
that time we have had, on the whole,
more to be thankful for than has fall
len to the lot of any other people. Gen
Grafton after generation has grown to
manhood and passed away. Each has
had to bear it's peculiar burdens each
to face it's special crises and each has
known years of grim trial, when the
country was menaced by malice, do
nestle or. foreign levy, when the hand
of the Lord was heavy upon it in
bodily distress and anguish Of soul 1t
paid the penalty of folly and
froward heart.
Nevertheless, decade by decade, we
have struggled onward and upward.
We now abundantly enjoy material
well-being, and under the favor Of the
Most High we are striving earnestly
to achieve moral and spiritual uplift-
ing. The year that has just closed has
been one of peace and overfiowing
plenty. Rarely has any people enjoy
ed greater prosperity than we are now
enjoying For this we render heart
felt and solemn thanks to the Giver of
Good; and we seek to praise Him not
by words only, but by deeds, by the
way in which we do our duty to our
selves and to our fellow men.
'Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roose-
welt, president of the United States, do
hereby designate as a day of general
Thanksgiving Thursday, the twenty
seventh of the coming November and
do recommend that throughout the
land the people cease from their erdi-
nary occupations, and in their several
houses and places of worship render
thanks unto Almighty God for the
manifold blessings of the past year"