The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-30
What the Editors Say


the old chestnut about the tariff need
ing revision, but that the work must
be done by its friends" If the voter
will stop to think for a moment he will
find that the friends" of the tariff
are the very fellows that are satisfied
with existing schedules. The tariff
should be revised without regard to
partisan or local phases and in the
interest Of the whole American peo-
pie. The tariff should never have been
made a party issue. It is purely a
business proposition and ought to be
treated as such. The special interests
and privileged classes have too long
made the tariff question the football
of their own schemes and ambitions
Red Lake Courier.
John Stetson, director of pomology
at the worlds fair, says the best cure
for the whisky or tobacco habits Is
the apple. When the appetite comes
on just eat an apple and say to yourself
you are satisfied. Thank heaven, Mar
tin county grows enough apples to Off
set all of her thirsts-Fairmont Sen
tinel
For the benefit of few fellows in
this neck of the woods who have an
inordinate desire for beer and stimu-
lants, other than whisky, we want to
know from our good brother Day a
remedy for these habits. The above
advice is good and as apples are cheap
local boozers ought to carry around
a few apples for mergencies.-Sleepy
Eye Herald.
1t Is no small distinction for Bemidii
that the United States recruiting office
of the state is to be moved to this city,
and that few offices in the country
have been so successful in securing re-
cruits as the Bemidji Office. For ma
terial progress Bemidji has outstripped
every other town in the state Come
North, young man.-Bemidji Pioneer.
While Bemidji may be all that is
claimed for it by the Pioneer, the fact
that young men are found willing to
join the United States army as privates
in time of peace is not an evidence of
prosperity or thrift. 1t is either the
result of hard times or laziness or
both.-Duluth Herald.
The sum Of $4,000 has been appro-
priated by congress for the investiga-
ton of drainage matters in the Red
River valley. This is the time of the
year when this question should be
taken up and carefully considered and
there should be an engineer on the
ground at once to observe the effect
of the spring floods and make plans for
the future. A good deal of this work
could be taken up in connection with
the force at the experimental station
in this city, as they could render val
liable aid along the line of this inyesti-
gation.-Fargo Forum.
One remarkable thing about this
rather warm state campaign is that
the only state department that has
raised an independent Dunn banner is
that of Commissioner of Insurance
Dearth, who with his deputy, D. c..
Lightbourne, are outspoken Dunn sup
porters. How they have escaped the
ak is puzzling the onlookers in Venice.
Every other department is enrolled I'M
der the Collins banner, and the atti-
tude of the insurance department is
therefore mystery-Winona Repub-
lican and Herald.
The Republicans of Minnesota quit
standing pat" long enough last week
to adopt a resolution in favor of reel
procity. But most people will not
take them seriously at all. Before fall
they will again be shouting for letting
well enough alone. Long Prairie
Democrat.
And the Democrats sit back and
laugh at the fight raging among the
Republicans and holler .sic 'em. "a
house divided against itself cannot
stand" and the wider the breach the
greater cause for citation in Demo-
cratic ranks.-Red Lake Falls Gazette.
Now that it is settled that Mime
sofa officials can no longer regulate
merger affairs, what will become of so
many of our great men? They will
evidently have to reach out" to find
something 'just as good."
Tribune.
Grimshaw's trinity of adverbs, his
t'unqualifiedly, unequivocally and unre-
servedly,' his thoroughly, INCREASINGLY
and persistently," suggest the addition
to the language of the word "adverbos-
ity."-Winona Republican and Herald.
Duluth Democrats will organize a
club to support Hearst. That club will
perhaps help a little in defending Will
lie from the bears up in that country.
That's about all.-Pine County Pioneer.
Congressman Volstead may have to
stand trial on a charge of arson. The
Ortonville HeraId-Star accuses him of
having set the prairies on fire with his
reciprocity speech.-Wahasha Herald.