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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
What the Editors Saw

The country press is almost a unit
Tor Bob Dunn, and in this the press not
only expresses the individual prefer
ence of the editors, but also reflects the
popular choice of the people. 1t is
generally conceded that Mr.. Eddy's
candidacy has but little support, and he
Is considered practically out of the
race. There is nothing to prevent the
nomination of the popular ex-auditor
and the general tone of the press
throughout the state clearly indicates
that Mr.. Dunn will be the next gov
ernor of Minnesota.-Roseau County
Times.
We often wonder why it is that men
nave not sense enough to know when
they have got enough-enough proper
ty and money. Here are men by the
hundreds all over the country at fifty
or sixty years of age, worth from $685.
900 to $4,000, owners of the best farms
In the world, working and shaving year
In and year out to make more money
and buy more land, when the very best
they can make of the job is ten years
or so of fret and worry, then a funeral
and the probating of a will and a scat
ter1ng of their hard earnings.--Crooks-
ton Times.
Whatever their grievance, the strik-
ing Millers at Minneapolis go to the
extremes of absurdity in threatening
President Northrop, of the state uni
vers1ty. 1t is alleged that the strikers
will use their influence to cut off the
financial support of the institution I'M
less President Northrop shall prevent
the students from taking the place of
the strikers. Northrop has no more
control over the students than other
man has-none whatever-Janesville
Argus.
Just think of our wonderful Mime
sofa! She puts up the biggest and best
state fair in the United States; is the
home of the fastest pacing horse in the
world; raises the best wheat and makes
the best butter in the world; has had
no lynchings; prosecutes her criminals
even those in high life; has three very
large cities, and furnishes some of the
greatest men in the country.-Anoka
County Union.
Several of old Dowie's followers have
achieved his disregard by announcing
disbelief in his claim of being Elijah.
Dowie ought to get mad about this.
He doesn't believe it himself-and you
know it is the truth that hurts.-St
Cloud Daily Times.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
WEDNESDAY, OCT. IA, 1903.
A HEATHENIsH SYSTEM.

The address delivered at the Evan
gelical alliance meeting in Cincinnati,
which charges the serious aspect of the
negro problem of the South to the
chain gang system, is nearer the truth
than most such explanations reach.
There is no one fact that will explain
the whole phenomenon. The race
troubles at the South are race troubles
That is all that can be said of them.
Their origin is not due to any single
cause, and they are not to be classified
or explained by any single formula.
But it is true, as it always has been
and always will be, that brutality is
the sure and natural product of inhu-
mainly and neglect. If a man had set
out deliberately to manufacture the
greatest possible number of criminals
from a given amount of human ma
terial, he could have devised nothing
in force in many of the Southern states
We boast of the growth of humanity
in modern times, and the proposal to
return to the drastic laws of centuries
ago, hanging men for the pettiest
crimes, would be met by shrieks of
protest. Yet that system was gentle,
merciful and, above all things, Chris
tian as compared with the treatment
of convicts in the states where the
chain gang exists.
In these commonwealth all offend
ers who are sentenced to labor for any
crime, great or SMALL are in much
worse condition than were any ne
groes, except the chattels of the most
brutal masters in the days of slavery.
They are herded together, without re-
gard to age or sex or fear of moral
contamination. They are leased to
brutalized employers, whose one inter-
est is to get out of them the largest
amount of manual labor in the short
est time, and with the least cost ot
maintenance. They live in stockades
or prison pens. They subsist on the
coarsest and most insufficient food
They work under the lash, and there
is not brutalizing influence within
the reach Of man or devil to which
they are not subjected The system is
infinitely worse than that of the old
slave days, because the slave was a
property of great cash value. and his
master could not kill him without
suffering money loss. Nobody cares
how quickly convict is legally muir
dered, as long as he can work ont his
lease.
Or course, under such a system the
last spark of human feeling is tramplef
out of the victim He becomes some.
thing far lower than the brute. With
the animals fierceness, bestiaIity anf
low cunning he combines an intense
and not unnatural longing to take re.
venge upon that social order which has
made him what he is, and now repre.
sents to him all that he hates an6
loathes. 1t is said that over a thou.
sand of these criminals escape ever,
year from custody in the South and gc
roaming over the country, more dan.
gerous to society than the beasts q,
an Indian jungle.
Just as dangerous are those who
survive their sentences and are legal.
ly let loose upon the world. The vic.
inns Of such system are bound to BIZ
criminals of the most dangerous sort
ana are certain to plan and execute
schemes of robbery, rape and murder
1t is these fiends, very largely who arr
responsible for the outrages that drive
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
ILLINOIS METHoDISTS
ENDORSE PARKS PLAN
Recommend the Education of CoIored
People by the Government.

CHICAGO, Oct ia memorial to
congress presented several days ago
by DR.. G. L. Parks, of Atlanta. Ga, rec
ommending the education of the COL
ored people of the South by the United
States government, was adopted today
by the Rock River conference of the
Methodist church in session at Aurora,
Ill. DR.. Parks desires to put the negro
on the same plane with the Indian,
making him a ward of the government.
The legal difficulties which may arise,
he believes can be surmounted by a
carefully planned campaign and he
sees in the contamination of his plan
a solution of the negro problem. A
committee of seven is named in the
memorial to convey the resolutions to
congress.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
RUSsIA'S PROGRAMME UN-
CHANGED.
UN

one OF the things that even the
Slavopholist has to admire is the
changeless tenacity of purpose of the
race. The Russian empire is a mundane
embodiment of fate. 1t never hastes,
never rests, never yields permanently
determined. 1t may be years, it may
even be centuries before a fixed i'm
perial policy can be realized. We can
not fix the day of its success, we only
know that it will never be relinquished.
Nobody knows when the dream Of
great conquest of Asia originated in
the Russian mind. 1t has been a part
of the Russian programme for genera
tons back. 1T prompted the steady
march of the race eastward. 1t in
spired the virtual absorption of Persia.
1t moved in insidious and ceaseless at
tacks upon Great Britain's Indian from
tier, where the hammer strokes Of the
Bear are still falling, and will continue
to fall until Britain and Russia some
time do meet in deadly conflict.
Sweeping eastward it contemplated
the practical absorption of the yellow
race. The great conception of the
trans Siberian railroad had its birth in
the determination of Russia to con-
quer and hold the western coast Of the
Pacific. 1t determined her opposition
to Japan's securing a foothold in the
Russian continent for her great VIC
churia. The temporary occasion for
this was the troubles arising from the
Boxer outbreak, but the act was only
the carrying out of plans long matured
and waiting an opportunity.
From that moment Russia had no
more idea Of evacuating Manchuria
than of giving up st. Petersburg to
some other power. She poured troops
into the province. She sent in colon
lists by tens of thousands. She seized
! local offices and bribed the native hold
ers of place who remained in Office
She Russianized the whole country, I'M
til today it is practically of little mo-
ment whether she abandons it or not.
1t is integrally part Of the Russian
empire.
| She has no intention, however, of re-
linquishing her external control. The
Bear is never at a loss for pretexts.
| Seventeen good reasons could be given
| at any time in the last three years why
| Russia should remain in Manchuria.
| AS many reasons are still available
and always will be. There will be no
change in the situation unless Japan
determines to fight. To fight she will
| be compelled sooner or later for her
own existence. The only question for
her is whether the struggle shall come
now or later. AS for Russia, she will
never yield. Even though beaten, her
programme will be retained to the last
item, and centuries hence her repre-
sentatives will be executing to the last
detail the plans of their statesmen
ancestors.
1t is this trait of great forethought
and foreknowledge.e careful and COM
prehensive planning and unyielding
fixity Of purpose through the years
that makes Russia power of the
present and portent of the future.
Even divorced from her great material
resources, they would oblige her to be
reckoned with. Combined with her
population, her territory and her mill
tary strength, they assure to her, soon
or late, the sovereignty of a consid-
cradle portion of the world.
The seven members of municipal
1 ~,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
SPARED the Old Man.

Dad said the rural youngster to his
home-returning parent, what do you
reckon has done took an happened?
( How kin l tell?"
1.-The lightnin' an thunder has kilt yer
two brindle cows, an five hogs"
That's bad, my son; but 1 can't be
everywhere. Providence knowed I wuz
away from home, and took advantage of
my Observation-Disclosures Constitution.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
Crude Oil AGAIN Advanced.

LIMA, Ohio, Oct 13.-The third advance
for the month was made in crude oil to-
day, prices of Western oil going up 2
cents, while cents We're added to prices
of Eastern producers. The rise did not
result in active selling, as producers look
for still higher prices. The quotations
now are: Tiona, $1.83; Pennsylvania,
$1.68; Corning. s1.48; New Castle. $155;
North Lima. s.; 26; South Lima and In
diana, 1.21; White House, $1.18.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
Among the Merrymakers
Eternal Woman,

Remember we say to the woman, Gin
business correspondence a short letter is
regarded with most favor
Thanking us, she begins writing. Sons
hours later she shows US the letter For
brevity it is commendable. A scant dozen
words have sufhced. But the postscript, to
explain something omitted in the letter,
occupies ten pages. Hastily We revise
our advice, saying:
1T was our mistake. A short postscript
is what We meant."-Judge
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
Gerrsaauy's Advance.

Germany, uhhasting, unresting. as is
her wont, is steadily marching toward
the goal indiaated by the German en-
peror in his fainous words, "Unsere
Zukunft Hegt atf dem Wasser." There
are many people in this country who
regard this as menacing and agrees
sive aspiration, and certainly no Eng
lishman who loves his country is likely
to overlook the significance, or to un-
derrate the possible effects, of the
great and progressive expansion of the
German navy.-London Times.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
Hiuhest PrIce for Indiana oM.

MONTPELIER, VT, Oct. 1s.-The OIL
market has reached the highest price ever
paid for Indiana oil The highest price
Indiana oil ever brought before was 81 81
reached since that date until a 2-cent
boost was given Indiana and South Lima
oils which sent them to $1.21 today, the
highest price ever paid for either.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
Rescued From Wrecked Banks.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 13.-The
comptroller of the currency has declared
dividends in favor of the creditors of in
solvent national banks as follows:
Two and one-half per cent. First Ma
tional bank of DEBORAH. Iowa; 2 $40 per
cent. City National bank Of Fort Worth.
Tex; IA 4-10 per cent, the Moscow Ma,
tional bank of Moscow, Idaho.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
In WashInuton.

who is that newspaper man over
there?"
CO. that's the Kermit reporter"
do?"
Reports the funny things of little Ker-
NIT Roosevelt and his white ny.''-Chi-
cago Tribune.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
Another Huntlno Accident

ST. JOSEPH. Mo-, Oct 13.-WiIlian
Duemeke, a prominent young stockman
residing six miles west of this city, was
shot and killed last night while returning
from duck hunting trip. Just how the
gun was discharged two companions OF
Duemeke are unable to say. The entire
charge OF shot entered his breast above
ffn
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
Innocent Amusement.

why don't you tell your husband it's
wrong to play any game for money!" said
the woman who always trumps her part
ner's ace
81 don't like to spoil Charleys amuse-
ment," said young Mrs. Torkins. BE
sides, he isn't nearly as bad as the othars
He never wins. '-WashinSton Star.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
500 Canal Is Involved

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 1s.-Ieave
was granted today by the United States
supreme court to the state of Michigan to
States versus the state of Michigan, The
case involves the ownership of the Sault
Ste. Marie canal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
Two Points of View.

Remember. my son." said the prudent
man, that a penny saved is a penny
earned"
That's So" replied the reckless youth.
'The trouble with me is that am always
getting hold of the wrong proverb 1 was
thinking. Nothing venture, nothing
have Washington Star.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
Twelve Millions Paid In

CLEVELAND. Ohio, Oct 13.-At a
meeting of the creditors OF the Everett
Moore syndicate. which became financially
embarrassed in January of last year. it
was decided by a unanimous vote to
grant an extension of eighteen months on
all outstanding obligations. The bankers
committee which has been i'm charge of
the affairs of the syndicate announced
that debts amounting to S12, 00O, 900 have
been liquidated. The outstanding debts OF
SO, 000, 900.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14

So many people have sought death
by the carbolic acid route recently that
perhaps it would be just as well if
druggists make it more difficult than
ever for customers to procure this
deadly poison.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14

ceeds among themselves. The coun-
ell should have remained in the mar
row path. It requires Western ''bluff"'
to follow successfully Western methods.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
Burton Holmes Starts TaIkIno

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Oct 13-Burton
Holmes, the lecturer, opened his regular
season tonight to a crowded house at the
Pabst theater. The subject was "ThCs
Yosemite. Valley" being the first OF an
all-American series of five lectures.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
Drunken Man ATTEMPTS MurtIer

JONESBORO. ILL.,. Oct. 13.-Dent Pitts
living on the Clifford farm. east OF Anna.
while intoxicated last night cut his wife's
throat and afterwards his own Pitts died
but his wife is still living.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14

Postmaster General Payne has an
nounced that he will not go on the
stump for Roosevelt next year. The
president has a few ardent supporters
whom wisdom will prompt him to keep
in the background. Undoubtedly Payne
is one of these
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14

The Russo-Japanese war cloud is re-
ported rolled away-for one day, at
least That's right. War is not only
horrible and costly, but think how un-
comfortable it is, tool
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14

The seven members of a municipal
council in Southern Hungary commit
ted suicide because it was discovered
that they had sold forestsowned by
the municipality and divided the pro-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
IN AFTER YEARS.

We sigh for things that mother cooked,
And yet, there is no doubt
They must have been the very ones
That father kicked about
New York Sun
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
WHAT A DIFFERENCE.

The ''cold bot" when you crack 1t,
Is bound to hit you back
At night you're on the racket,
Next morning on the rack.
Catholic Standard and Times.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14
A Southern Opinion.

We think the Democratic nomina-
ton lies between Grover Cleveland
Daniel Lamont and David r. Francis
with chances in the order named
Mobile Register.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14

What is SO rare as a day in June ?"
asked Lowell We should say day
in October in Minnesota, such as YES
terday was. rs +
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14

1t is idle to attempt to forecast the
result of Secretary Hitchcock's exam
nation of Tams Bixby, head of the
Dawes Indian commission, in connec-
ton with sundry evil deeds that are
said to have been done in Indian Ter
ritory. But Mr.. Hitchcock, it may be
depended upon, will find Tams just as
smooth as he was when he used to run
the Republican machine in Minnesota,
when his ways were as inscrutable as
his own hieroglyphic autograph.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14

The sale of seats opens tomorrow
morning at the Metropolitan for half
weeks engagement of Under Southern
Skies" beginning Sunday night.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14

slider Whetha ftEis right for them to
try to earna moaey by entering into
competition YHhsshe poor sewing woln-
an or the sraFll estaurant keeper" 1t
is probable that, in the near future
the matter will be considered, and it
is also probable that way out of the
difficulty viii be found which will en-
able the CHURCHES to have their sales
and to help the seamstress as we'll A
truer charity and larger sense of
Christian duty in the whole community
would makee lI5 this rivalry impossible
even though they existed side by side.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14

The first matinee of the engagement
of James H. Wallick's stirring West
ern drama. Queen of the Highway"
will occur at the Grand today at q: 80.
Ward & Vokes in their new musical
farce comedy, "a Pair of Pinks," will
be next weeks attraction at the Grand
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-14

Commencing tomorrow night and
continuing for three nights and a Sat
urday matinee, the bill at the Metro
politan will be the Augustin DAILY Mu-
steal company in "a Country Girl" a
musical comedy by the authors of "San
Toy and 1.-The Geisha."
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-24
CONVENTION A FAILURE
The Referendum Convention Failed
to Draw Much OF a Crowd
at Aberdeen.

The mass convention Of the
qualified voters of South Dakota,
called at A berdeen to put in motion
steps for invoking the referendum
upon various measures passed by the
last session Of the legislature, met
or. Thursday. s.. H. Cran4ner, one
of the signers Of the call was the
only man present at the hour named
in the call and he adjourned the
meeting until the middle Of the
afternoon, when be hoped a larger
crowd could be assembled.
The convention again met in the
afternoon, those present being S. H.
Cranmer, Samuel Lovett, A. G.
Hunt and L. B. Wells. Mr.. Cranmer
was chosen chairman of the conven-
tion and called the meeting to order.
After discussing ten or fifteen bills
passed by the legislature, which
they believed should be submitted
to the referendum, among the num-
Der being the appropriation of S., OO(
for the purchase of a suitable present
for the cruiser South Dakota, the
meeting adjourned to meet again
The call for the convention was
signed by a number Of socialists ant
populists from different parts of the
state. but no one from outside o.
Aberdeen had that far appeared to at
tend the gathering. and but little
interest has been shown in thu
movement.
1t is understood the socialists con.
template making an attempt to in
woke the initiative for the purpose o.
endeavOring to put upon the statut,
books measures favored by them.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-24
INSPECTION OF co. D.
The Mitchell Company Will Be In
spected on Monday of Next
Week-Boys Ready.

The boys who compose the member
ship Of Co. D are getting in readi-
ness for the company inspection,
which will occur on Monday, April
27. Adjutant General Conklin has
set the dates for most all of the COM
panies in the second and third regi-
ments.
Other dates that have been named
for the northern part of the state
are as follows: Gary, April 23d;
W%atertown, April oath; Clark, April
25th; Redfeld, April 9th; Milbank,
April goth; Britton, April Goth;
Eureka, May I'd; Huron, May 9Th:
Miller, May 4th; Aberdeen, May 4th;
Pierre, May 7th.
For the southern part Of the state
the dates are: Volga. April 23d;
Howard, april oath; Fland1eau,
April 25th; Kimball, April 2Sthr
Armour, April 10Th; Yankton, April
Goth; Canton, May LIST; Sioux Falls,
May I'd Centerville, May 4th.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-24
A GOOD ENTERTAINMENT
The Y. W. e. r. U, Provided q Good
Program for Their Concert
and Social.

The Y. W.. G. I. o., a H%ourishing
organization, and branch of the w.
G. L. u, gave a public entertain
ment in the G.. A. r. hall Friday
evening that afforded a great deal of
pleasure to the number of people who
gathered there to encourage the young
ladies in their work. Miss Lottie
Tenney bad charge Of the program
and announced the numbers. The
Turneaure family orchestra gave two
selections on the program, and a solo
was sung by Miss Hazel Lathrop,
and her singing gave much pleasure.
Miss Lila Ewart was the accompan-
ist. Prof. Hof, of the city schools,
made a few remarks concerning the
measurement of the success one at
tains in life, his point being that
money earned or gained was not the
correct standard. He believed that
doing good and making others happy
was Of much more value than money.
Milly Pratt recited we'll and Grace
and Olive Vaughan sang a temper
ance song. Carl Ruth, who is a
promising student, gave a violin solo,
and Miss Marjorie Ruth played his
accompaniment. Bernice Lathrop,
dressed in an old ladies' costume,
sang very sweetly, and Lillian Johns
ton gave a humorous recitation in a
characteristic way. Miss Sadie Seal
lin, whose voice is always charming,
rendered a solo very %acceptably in.
deed. Rosie Pratt gave a pleasing
recitation. The last number on the
program was vocal solo by Miss
Merle Tillotson, who sang "Just fol
Today" Miss Tillotson has a central.
to voice that is wonderfully sweet
with a deep, round full tone and it is
a genuine pleasure to hear her sing
1t is just as pure and true in the
upper register IS in the lower anG
she sings with evident ease. Mis-!
Tillotson has a bright future ,befor,
her in the further cultivation of he,
voice. She was heartily encored ant
responded. Miss G%oodykoontz playe<
the accompaniment for her and Mis-
Scallin. After the program wa
finished light refreshments wer'
served. The affair was a very pleas
ant one and the young ladies mad
a neat sum for their treasury.