The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30
What the Editors Say

The grand jury is the county police.
It is the safeguard of the citizen to
great extent, and the constant enemy
of the criminal. Many a crook follows
the straight and narrow path
for fear the grand jury will get after
him. The last legislature has provided
for constitutional amendment to
abolish the grand jury, and the people
are asked to vote yes" 1t provided
for nothing to take its place. If it is
as is usually the case with constitu-
tional amendments, the people simply
invites the moonShiner type OF men to
get busy and take free sway. Nobody
is afraid of the averag e trial jury,
picked simply because they. don't know
anything about the case or much or
anything else. If the case has been
aired in the newspapers all readers are
excused from jury duty simply be-
cause they know something about 1T.
If the legislature had abolished the
trial jury and provided for letting the
accused file evidence with the grand
jury in his defense, then the court could
have pronounced sentence on the find
ings of body capable of rendering a
just verdict. The grand jury is the
intelligence of the people of the coun-
ty, while the trial jury represents its
ignorance. As the conscience of man
is Gods policeman, so the grand jury
is the policeman of the people.-Can-
non Falls Beacon.
1t is generally admitted by Repub-
licans and Democrats alike that Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his smarties in
the war department made bad mess
Of it when they worked off their late
snub on Gen Miles The way the old
soldier has been welcomed at every
other point after he left Washington.
and especially at the national G. A. r.
encampment at San Francisco, proves
that he has millions of friends who
think all the more of him because of
the enemies he has made" Among
these millions may be counted hum
dreds of thousands of Republicans who
will not forget it later on, when the
opportunity comes to recognize the old
hero and administer a well-merited re-
buke to the smart set" Among our
Republican exchanges we have found
scarcely one that has not expressed in
dignation at the treatment accorded
Gen. Miles by the administration =
Montevideo Leader.
The chances are that John D. Rookie
feller will have an opportunity to ex-
pend that million dollars which he Of
fered for a new stomach. Prof. Byron
Tyler, of the Chicago Raw Food COM
pany, claims that he prescribed a diet
of raw cereals and also sent the oil
magnate quantity of macerated
wheat Rockefeller abandoned his diet
of milk and crackers. and ate the food
thus furnished him with the result of
rapid improvement in his health.
Prof Tyler now wants the million dol
lars which was reported last winter as
being the amount Rockefeller would
pay for a new stomach. If Rock efeller
is wise he will put up the defense that
it is the old stomach repaired.-Nor-
man County Herald.
Tom Lowry in the United States
senate would be a calamity and M. D.
Mum no less so. Neither of them has
interests in common with the masses.
Jamison could not do any good in the
Office if he would. He is chattel for
the trusts. Will the people obey the
dictators and confirm their plotting
against restoration of honesty In the
public service? At the ballot box is
the only place where the masses can
be heard. Will they go to the polls as
free men in free government? 1t is
time to break the shackles of party
Preston National Republican.
Lieut. Gov. Jones banquet in Min
neapolis the other evening might not
have deranged the stomachs of the
visiting senators, but it did upset tho
stomach of friend Jones' political fu-
ture to considerable extent That lum-
Der petition acted as most virulent
emetic among the people of the state.
-Litchfield News-Ledger.
"a rapt public is waiting to catch
the first syllables of Gen. Miles when
he writes retired after his name"-
Perham Bulletin.
1t is not the public that will get
rapped.-St. Cloud Times.