The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-23
What the Editors Say

our JIM" of the patronymic Taw-
hey, mas line reputation as a states
man. he has now the distinction of
telling the biggest lie ever uttered in
the Philadelphia Five o'clock club
room. He said that he stood in the
window of his grandfather's house on
the Held of Gettysburg during the bat
tie, and that when he afterwards asked
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee why he had not de-
stroyed the house, the general said
saw you standing at the window
and cried to my men, don't fire.
There is boy who will grow up to be
q member of congress and will be on
the arts and eXpoSitions committee
and then we will want a big appropria-
ton for the jamestown exposition 1t
IS understood that the Five o'clock
club is about to disband.-Rocheste
Post and Record.
1T is a new Roosevelt we have now
man who by self discipline has al
most made himself over and into an
other being. Compared with the Roose-
welt who came into the White house
by virtue of a decree of fate the
Roosevelt of today is a man calm sub
dued, disciplined" If it was anybody
but famous Washington correspond
ent like Walter Wellman who said such
a foolish thing as this, we would all
laugh at it. If it means anything it
means that Roosevelt came into office
as an exponent of the peoples interests,
and has sold out to the trusts With
Roosevelt calm Subdued and disci-
plined," the trusts are invited to rally
to his standard, while the people are
to be fooled with the campaign slogan
Roosevelt, revision and reciprocity
Duluth Herald.
There is a general impression that
there will be a great deal of poor seed
corn this year 1t is a mistake to
plant seed corn when any considerable
portion of it will fail to grow. It's
growing qualities can be easily tested.
Take q few kernels from each of sew
eral ears and place them between two
damp wooden cloths. Keep cloths
Ii corn viii grow you can tell in very
few days by this method. Every fail
ure will be easily noticed. Farmers
should take extra precautiOn in testing
their seed corn this year.-Wabasha
Herald.
The Iowa legislature has shown good
sense by promptly and overwhelmingly
defeating the proposed primary cleo
ton law. Perhaps they have observed
it's workings in Minnesota, and, con-
trary to the general rule, have prOfited
by our experience. We hope that our
own lawmakers will some day sum-
mon sufficient courage to wipe the thing
from our statute books, although for
obvious reasons such action would
meet with tremendous opposition in
certain interested quarterS.-Preston
Times.
During a recent visit to a Mime
sofa town engaged in keeping $780,
900 Carnegie library open, the Knock
er was told by the librarian that
tWentyOne visitors had been in that
day, four fifths of them girls and boys
after novels. About the best claim put
forth for the Carnegie library prOpo-
Sition is that the building is usually
an ornament to the town, but costly
to the taxpayers for the good the av-
erage country library does.-Zumbrota
Independent.
The defeat of Railroad Magnate Har-
riman in his suit to have the plan of
distribution of the Northern Securities
stock set aside by the federal circuit
court will be good news to Minnesota
people, whether anti mergerites or not.
-Winona Morning Independent.
Germany may be isolated" but it's
not likely any nation will presume to
step on her toes for that reason. The
Hohenzollerns have played successful
lone hands in their time.-Duluth
News Tribune.