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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
A HOT TIME FOR The COURTS.

A dealer in stock has been placed on
trial in New York city, charged with
grand larceny in the first degree be-
cause he sold to an innocent buyer
some stock of a mining company that
is now said to be fraudulent. AS We
look back over the financial operations
Of the last few years, we feel like ex-
tending our hearty commiseration to
the courts if they intend to begin TAX
ing cognizance of this practice as a
criminal offense. There are enough
lambs whose fleece has been shorn
close by sellers of worthless securities
to keep the courts from considering
any other business for the next ten
years if such woes obtain legal stand
ing.
A man who had kept his head level,
even though his judgment were some
what carried away by universal boom,
could not pick up a magazine Or go
through the circulars arriving in his
daily mail for years past without Won
dering where the promoters Of wild
schemes expected to catch their suck
ers. 1t was meager and starved am.
bition that consented to form a stock
company with capital of less than
$5,000,000. To advertise title of a few
mining claims anywhere off in CALI
cesses of Alaska, capitalize these for
millions and then offer them to the
public at prices which would be high
for the stock Of mines actually devel-
oped and shipping ore daily to shelters
or stamping machines was as common
an occurrence as to buy or sell dry
goods or boots and shoes. AS for the
greater advantage to the people who
f1oated the stocks of things like the
ship building trust or the tin plate af-
fair, what their victims think and say
is not available for publication
In these speculative enterprises the
element of fraudulent intent is one in
capable of exact determination and
largely question Gf degree. We do
not see that it would do anything but
harm if it could be determined or pun
1shed. The only way to change the
character of the lamb appears to be to
cut his wool short. In this world peo-
pie learn little about anything except
through suffering, and this seems to
be more true of their investments than
of anything else. Capital, as wise
man once said, is at once the most
conservative and the most foolishly
reckless thing in the world. The only
way to convince the man with a little
money that it will not breed and multi
ply as if it were live stock or wheat
sown in the ground is to let him lose it.
Just such performances as the float
ing of stocks now in question have
helped and have perhaps been indis-
pensable in bringing to an end the wild
disposition of all our people to press
speculation and speculative investment
to the limit. 1t would be a hot time
for the courts if they had to consider
all these cases and, on the whole, it
would be a bad thing for the public. 1t
has had its debauch and is suffering
from it's headache. That racking pain,
with dash of unsympathetic ice wa
ter, is more curative than coddling
would ever be.
The weather man is. mixing thinas.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
TODAY'S WEATHER

Minnesota. Upper Michigan and wis
consin-Fair and cooler Friday; fresh
northwest winds. Saturday fair
Iowa-Fair and cooler Friday. Saturday
fair.
North and South Dakota-Fair and cool
er Friday; probably snow Saturday.
Montana--Fair in east; snow in west
portion Friday and Saturday.
st. Paul-Y esterday's observations.
taken by the United States weather bt-
reau, st. Paul w. E. Oliver, observer, for
last night-Barometer corrected for tenn
perature and elevation. Highest tenpera-
ture, SO; lowest temperature 81; average
temperature, 34;- daily range, 6; baron
is; p. m. temperature, So; p. m. wind
northwest; weather, partly cloudy.
Yesterday's TefuDera fI1res-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
FRIDAY, NOV. 13, 1903.
NO CIVIL PENSION LIST.

The report of Mr.. Schallenberger,
revives a suggestion that will be heard
from again and again and year after
year. until the public either per-
emptoriIy vetoes it or is seduced into
more or less complete compliance with
it. This looks toward some general
legislation for creating a pension
fund for retiring clerks in the postal
service. The plan outlined contem-
plates subtracting a small amount from
the salary Of each employe annually
and thereby creating a fund out Of
which such pensions might be paid.
OF course if this were done at the
beginning, it would amount to nothing,
because by subsequent legislation the
government would assume the entire
burden of the pension fund.- either di-
rectly or in the shape of an increase
sufficient to cover their contributions.
The confusion of ideas on this sub
ject appears in the senseless recon-
mendation which links together, as if
equally deserving of paternal care
clerks permanently disabled in line of
duty or worn out through long and
faithful service The claims of these
two classes upon the public are as far
apart as the poles. Railway mail
clerks and few of the messengers who
carry the mail over isolated and dan
generous routes such as those in Alas
ka, are exposed to actual danger in the
doing of their daily work. These may
suffer injury as great as that received
by soldier in time of war. They may
be incapacitated for earning a liveli-
hood in the future When they receive
such injury in the ine of their duty
they are perfectly entitled to support
for the rest of their lives They de-
serve it just as the pensioners of our
wars deserve it, just as policemen and
firemen subject to similar disaster in
their lines of work are entitled to re-
ceive consideration from the communi
ties they serve. No one will quarrel
with proper provision for the wants
of such persons, and that without max
ing any deductions whatever from sal
aries.
The alleged clerk worn out with
long and faithful service" is another
sort of fellow altogether The face of
our people should be set like adamant
against any pension or other kind of
public provision for public servants on
the ground of service only. They ara
not entitled to one dollar, and it will
be an evil day for this government and
for our institutions when this most in
sidious form of corruption shall have
gained foothold among u.s. Nobody
obliges any citizen to enter the federal
service, either in the postal depart
ment or in any other branch Clerks
dpPOlL(Cu IlOI OIlly OI their own
free will, but at their earnest personal
solicitation, after they have prepared
for and passed examinations for that
purpose and usually with all the addi-
tional political pull that they can COM
mand. Thus desirable are the places
considered, and justly so. The salaries
are fair, the hours reasonable and the
work comparatively light. No such
clerkship ever goes begging. because it
offers opportunities less tempting than
like employment in private life
The clerk in a business house or a
railroad Office has to take care of his
own future and does so. He is a better
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
Among the Merrymakers
BALM IN GILEAD.

Yes, I know that she chews gum,
Chewing. chewing,
Jaws achieving.
But I've got no kick to come,
Nary, nary,
Quite contrary,
GOSH like to see her do it.
If she stopped I'd rue it,
Cause she cannot talk, you know,
When her jaws are moving so.
New York Evening ST
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
TWIN CITY FOUNDERS
ARE ON HAND
National Association Holds Its Conven
ton in Washington.
Globe Special Washington Service,
n

Globe Special Washington Service,
1417 6 Street.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 12-St.
Paul is represented at the National
Founders association, now in session
here, by C. M. Power, John Grant and
Oliver Crosby; from Minneapolis is O..
P. Briggs. The convention represents
600 of the largest steel and iron foun-
dries in the country and is discussing
labor difficulties, the open shop" and
other problems. w. E. G..
sixth annual convention of the Ma
tional Founders association finished
it's business here today The retiring
president, T. F. Town, was succeeded
by Vice President Isaac W. Frank, of
Pittsburg, Pa. c. M. Power, of st.
Paul, Mimi, is a member of the ad-
ministratiye council.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
CHARGES AbeeI With Forgery.

NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-Formal COM
plant charging forgery was made today
against James Abeel by Robert Goelet
the Duchess of Roxburghes brother
whom Abeel is said to have imperson-
ated in proposing marriage to Miss Elean-
or Anderson, telegraph operator at the
Grand hotel. Abeel has disappeared. Mr..
Goelet charges Abel with forging the
name of j. b. Van Every, vice president
of the Western Union, TO a letter of intro
duction. by means of which Abeel be.
came acquainted with Miss Anderson.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
Advantaaes of MISFORTUNE.

Milton was receiving the condolences of
his friends.
1T must be dreadful to be blind" they
murmured
mot at ALL he replied "just think. 1
never see any declined with thanks no.
tees
Perceiving that he escaped the poets
greatest sorrow they ceased to mourn his
affiiction.-New York Sum-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
THEIR eRAvEsr DANGER.

One of the leaders of union labor
in this city sounds a needed warning
to organized workingmen when he
urges them to be on their guard against
the seductions of socialism. A socialist
speaker in an address last Sunday aft
ernoon frankly announced the purpose
of the socialists to be the capture of
organized labor. He said: .The labor
unions have accomplished about all
| they can in the economic field, and
| must now turn to the political field and
there strive for their rights. We are
gaining a foothold among them and
will have their unanimous support in
time
The missionary work done by the So
cialists among union men in various
parts of the country has already at
tracted public notice. The socialists,
by the proffer of a cheap and ready
cheaper and more worthless remedy,
have tried, in some cases not unsuc-
cessfully, to curry favor with the work
ingmen. The workingmen as a whole
are too intelligent to be caught by this
cheap sophistry Or to accept this guild
ance, leading to their certain ruin.
1t is amusing to follow the socialistic
theory, which denounces existing So
ciety as given over wholly to COM
mercialism, and then proposes to build
out of the identical clements that con-
stitute this cotnrnercialized organize
ton. a new. state that shall be free
from all such faint. The socialist per-
sistently ignores the factor Of human
nature. If commercialism has too
strong a hold upon modern society and
government, as it undoubtedly has, it
is because the units who make up that
society and that government are either
too greedy or too corrupt. CONNER
cialism means the blighting or charac-
ter and of, the higher views and feel
ings of men for aiprice. And there can
be no such purchase unless there are
many, willing to sell.
The socialistic state would have to be
ecutive, legislative and other officers
would have to be chosen from the peo-
pie by some system. Socialism would
no more be able to pick out the hon
est, upright and patriotic and exclude
all the others than has our system of
representative constitutional govern
ment. A government will be always,
in the long run, exactly what the av-.
erage quality of it's people make it.
Socialism could not change the average
quality of the people. Men of the same
moral stature, the same appetite and
the same views of public place would
get into power under it. The only diff
ference would be that in that case they
would reign supreme and exercise over
the destinies of every individual an au-
thority so resistless, so relentless and
so tyrannical as to make a socialistic
state memorable among all the cat
astrophes in the history of the world.
The chief sufferer of all would be the
workingman. He sees the lure and will
not be tempted to his fall Theoret-
ically, socialism says that you can con-
struct a building of pure white marble
by using only common red brick as
your building material. Practically, it
offers tos its deluded votaries a pro-
gramme of benefits, not one of which
can be realized by any change in our
governing system whatever, but only
by the slow and permanent improve
ment and exalting of human nature.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
BURKE'S FRIENDS WANT
aa4- AN INVESTIGATION
They Say Secretary Hitchcock Kept
Corrupt Men in Office.
Globe Special Washington Service,

1417 Q Street.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 12.-Ex-
Gov. Burke, of North Dakota, inspector
of land offices, and surveyor generals
offices, whose resignation is in the
hands of the secretary. of the interior,
is in Washington and has talked with
several members from the Northwest
about his dispute with Mrio Hitchcock.
fbqGoVs Burke is not seeking reinstate-
ment,I but some of his friends are. anx-
ious for yindication, and there is talk
of congressional investigation. The
charges which will be the basis of the
possible. investigation is that Hitch
cock appointed and continued men in
office who were found by Burke to be
corrupt Walter Il. Clark.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13

Perhaps it is the Strap Hangers
union that instigated the strike of the
Chicago street car conductors. Having
had their arms pulled for years, it IS
to be expected that the strap hangers
would be pleased to see the legs of the
stockholders pulled bit.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
Her Wise Papa.

She--Papa says that when coming to
see me you must not come in street car
any more.
He-Really! Does he expect me to
walk all this distance?
She-Cf course not. He says all he asks
is that you will come in a carriage, hired
by the hour.-New York Weekly.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
The simnIest WaY.

She-How do you pronounce EN- -b-o-n-
He-oh! it's easy enough to pronounce
that.
She-How?
He-F'at-Philadelphi Press.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
Wanted No WAGES,

do you know the wages of SIM" asked
the dominic sternly of Johnnie, who was
busily tying a can to a dogs tail
rs dis sin?' queried John, without
looking up.
1T certainly is"
"Well, I don't want no wages fer dis;
I'm dom it fer fun. Houston Post
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13

Maybe it is just as WELL The preach
ing might possibly take on fervid
tone just about the time man got IN
terested in making run on the church
billiard table.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
Contemporary Comment
Wait Til He Receivers.

Unlike Mayor johnson, of Cleveland,
Mayor Low, of New York, is not try
ing to explain how it all happened just
as 1t did. He is fully convinced that
1t did happen, and the disgusting de-
tails do not interest him.-Chicago In
ter Ocean,. Sb&s
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
Vain Hope.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal
hoped that our premature young pres
ident would not. butt into the Panama
revolution" Before the paragraph was
dry, however, the president had done
butted." Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
Evidently Wasn't Much.

Ezekiel Ezekiel was defeated in Mas
,sachusetts and Adelard Archambault
was put to the bad in Rhode Island.
Who says there is nothing in a name?
Chicago Record Herald.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
Too Much johnson.

The worst defeat the Democrats ever
received in Ohio is an indication of
too much Johnson" and it is safe to
say that Tom johnson will not soon
again be given the eadership.-Mid-
dlestown (Ohio) Signal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
After All His Experience, Too.

Mr.. Grosvenor, the statistician who
estimated that Ohio would go Repub-
lican by $4,000, must be overwhelmed
with grin--Kansas City STAR.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
Will. BE. the Soul of Wit.

The whole country, irrespective Of
party, will support Mr.. Roosevelt on
the short presidential message issue
Detroit Free Press.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13

There is that about the attitude of
Russia toward Japan which reminds
one of the time when Col -F'itzsimmons
told Col. Jeffries to go and get repu-
tation.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
Worse Than Pidqin English.

An effort is going to be made to stop
swearing in the navy. Admiral Evans
talk, with the reverse English on, will
be interesting, to say the least-Denyer
Republican.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
Likes to Keep in Practice.

It was to be expected, in view of the
inspiring returns, that an Ohio paper
would declare for Hanna for the presi-
dency. Ohio hasn't named president
for three years now, and the time
seems long.-Kansas City Journal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
TRUE COURAGE.

True courage does not scow1 and fret;
III luck is but the test of if.
If it the worst of luck should get
1t simply makes the best of it.
Philadelphia Press.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
Sometimes Has a Full House.

Tom Johnson perceives the danger OF
pat is bluffing .--Brooklyn Union.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
Exnlains fine Ins and Outs of 1t.

Perhaps New York put Mcclellan in
because Mr.. Roosevelt left Mcclellan
out.-St. Louis st-Dispatch.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
A COMPARISON.

Most gossips like an auto are,
Deserving of our scorn;
For while they run their neighbors down
They also blow their horn.
New York Sun.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
just LAUGHED Himself Tired.

OF course; President Roosevelt was
almost tickled to death over Hannas
big sweep in Oliio-MiIwaukee News.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
Dove Deep Through for Them

Prof. Langley's buzzard has eaten
another mess Of enbacks.-Atlanta
Journal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13
Real Fame.

HE is said to be famous man.
"He is. So famous that when you tell
who he is you don't have to tell what he
is.''-Town Topics.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13

The weather man is mixing things
with an abandon that suggests an all
lance with the pneumonia bug.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13

Sunday GIobe-CoIor Supplement-
Order today.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-13

A new republic is born and its name
is Panama. Take off your sombrero to
the healthy infant, for good Uncle Sam
is it's godfather. AS Colombia would
neither fish, cut bait nor go ashore on
the canal project, little Panama decid-
ed to set up business for herself And
here is a new nation.-Hudson (Wis.)
Star-TimeS
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-04-23
RAIDERS ARE DISPERSED.
FIIIpInos Flee to the Mountains, but
More Disorder Breaks Out.

FIllpInos Flee to the Mountains, but
More Disorder Breaks Out.
Manila, April 20.-The band which
raided Surigao, Island of Mindanao,
March %, Is practically dispersed.
The troops and constabulary pursued
the men into the Lake Manit country
and defeated them five times, killing
twenty and wounding many others.
Most Of the arms stolen at Surigao
were recovered. The. disorder which
recently broke out In the province
of Misasmis, Island Of Mindanao. is
spreading. The civil authorities have
appealed for military assistance.
People are leaving the towns and go
ing to the mountains and many are
proclaiming themselves rebels. The
troops have encountered and dis
persed a band of 400, wounding thir-
teen. The government ia planning to
increase the military force at Misas-
mis- and inaugurate a campaign. The
insurgents have a few arms.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-04-23
Personal Mention.

John Geagea, one of the most noted
and distinguished engineers of Mexico,
is dead.
John X. Lincoln, a distant relative
OF Abraham Lincoln, died at the
home of his son-in-law in Kansas City,
aged eightytwo years.
DIR. J. c. Gordon, superintendent of
the Illinois institution for deaf and
dumb at Jacksonville died shortly af.
ter an operation for appendicitis.
Four structures in the business
part OF Wilmington Mass. were
burned, entailing a loss of $50 600 1t
looked for time as though buildings
over large area would be destroyed.
Former Congressman Abner Taylor
of Chicago died in Washington. aged
seyenty-four years. He had been III
for several weeks with a compiled,
ton of diseases. Mr. Taylor was a
native of Maine
s. Morgan Smith Of York. Pa, pres.
ident OF the S Morgan Smith com.
pany, died in Los Angeles, Cal, aged
sixty-hve years. Mr.. Smith was one
of the largest manufacturers OF water
wheels in the United States He went
to Los Angeles two months ago for the
benefit of his health
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-04-23
Casualties.

A tornado killed nine persons near
Evergreen, Ala.
Beran's saw mill boiler AT Gailipo.
lis. Ohio. exploded HtIing FIVE men.
The body OF Charles Helberg, a fish.
erman, aged sixty years. Of Portage
Entry, was found in Portage lake, near
Houghton, Mich. by workmen on the
Copper Range docks
Redna Dahl OF Calumet, Mich, fell
twenty-five feet into a deep pool above
the Houghton-D Douglas falls and was
rescued with difficulty just as she was
about to be carried away.
The boiler of the Charles Bevans
sawmill at Ruby. Ohio, exploded, kill.
ing Charles Beyans, Richard Houck,
Rufus Houck. and two boys named
Houck and Cottridge, Several others
were badly injured.
The new Iron Mountain shops at
Barring Cross. Ark, had a narrow
escape from a total destruction by
fire. The freight car repair shop was
burned, including about thirtyfuur
freight cars and two cabooses. Loss
$4,000.
The east-bound limited on the Balti
more & Ohio railway was wrecked at
billions Crossing, a few miles north
of Mansfield, Ohio. The heavy rains
had undermined the tracks where
there was a culvert. Four persona
were injured.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-04-23

II is understood In official circles
that Mexico will adopt the gold stand
ard, with silver in the ration Of 80
to i.
Application has been made for the
organization of the First National
bank at Hatton, N. d., with a capital
of $4,000.
The Elkins law is arousing deep in
terest among shippers. Even the
half rate to soldiers ON furlough is
said to be illegal.
Admiral Higginsons report to the
navy department upon the fatal eN-
plosion on the Iowa shows that a de.
fective shell was not the cause, but
that the gun had been weakened by
127 discharges.
Minister Squiers has outlined to
President Palma and Foreign Score.
tary Zaldo the details OF the perma-
nent treaty between Cuba and the
United States in accordance with the
propositions prepared in Washington.
AT the request OF the secretary Of
constructor, has prepared a statement
Of the nature of the repairs to be made
on the Maine, in which he says the
damage done TO the turrets consN SITS
largely in the loosening up and break
ing of fastenings and riyets, and in no
respect is general structural weak
ness Of the ship.
The war department has taken ofyl-
eial cognizance of the reported state
ment of Gen Frank ID. Baldwin, com
mander of the department of the Col
orado, in disparagement Of TIE ne
groes and FiIipinCs as soldiers, and
Secretary Root has directed that for.
NAL inquiry be addressed TO Gen.
Baldwin asking whether or not he has
been correctly quoted.