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The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-28
A WORTHY MOVEMENT.

The Minnesota immigration conven-
tion which has been called to meet in
st. Paul June IA and 15 promises great
things for the promotion of the inter-
ests of the state. 1t bids fair to at
tract a considerable attendance and
should inspire with new vigor the men
who are engaged in promoting immi-
grafton to this state.
For some years there has been a dis
position to allow the transportation
companies to do all the work in this
connection. 1t must be admitted that
they have done a great deal and will
do much more, no doubt, but it is
properly part of the duty of the citi-
zen to do something towards encourag-
ing immigration. There is an enor-
nous area of tillable and rich land
Minnesota which is not being culti-
waited. The reasons that made Mime
sofa a desirable field fer the immigrant
in the seventies and eighties still exist
and even in a larger degree, for al
though land is no longer to be had
free, it can be obtained on such terms
and under such conditions as to make
it a much more inviting proposition
than when the wilderness was free to
whoever would live on the soil.
While there has been a great enhance
ment in the values of farm lands. the
prices ruling now would be regarded
as very low by settlers from older and
more pepulous sections of the coun-
try.
With proper direction the immigra-
ton convention may be made a most
profitable undertaking for the people
of Minnesota and a movement started
that viii people all the uncultivated
land in a few years.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-28
THlEvERY is uNPRoFtTARIE

The exceeding smartness Of the or
ganized forces for the pursuit of Grim
inals should act as positive deter
rent to the man or woman who is dis
posed to live by plunder. Just the other
day there occurred a case which illus
trates the efficiency Of the police sys-
tenn of the country and which has at
tracted a great deal of attention. A
butler in Chicago household stole a
lot of valuable jewelry. Within an hour
after committing the robbery he was
on the way East He had no criminal
record and there was nothing in the
appearance of the man to invite atten-
tion, yet, within three days, he was ar
rested in Providence, r. l., while walk
ing about the streets, and the plunder
was recovered. The police department
of the Eastern city worked on the case
with just the same information as the
Chicago police had and the man would
have been just as safe. perhaps safer,
Il iiS AAeAN III
To the layman there is something
astonishing in modern police methods.
Without appearing to be vitality in
terested the police work on a system
that is really remarkable in it's unerr-
ing certainty of results. 1t happened
the other day in ST. Paul that a saloon
was burglarized just after midnight
The crime was reported, the criminals
had left no other sign than an open
window and an empty cash box. Five
hours later the burglars were arrested
while on their way to Minneapolis.
They We're professional thieves and un-
derstood the usual methods of protect
ing themselves, but so complete was
the case against them that they con-
fessed. In quite another sphere the
efficiency of the police system was
demonstrated in this as in the case of
the man who Travelled twelve hundred
miles from the scene of his crime only
to feel that same eminous tap on the
shoulder which is the terror of the
crook.
Crime no longer pays. The way of
the transgressor is indeed hard in these
days when smart intelligence directs
the pursuit of the transgressor. The
policeman is giving force to the prov
erb that honesty is the best policy
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-28
Clears the Way for Union.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 81
The Methodist Protestant conference
today completely cleared the way for
union between itself and every one Of
the four denominations with which ne
gotiatiOns are pending, by the adoption
of a supplemental report from it's com
mittee en- union. If two thirds of the
members of the various conferences
vote for union with the Primitive
Methodists, the union will be consufn-
mated so far As the Methodist Prot
estants are concerned. With respect
to the Methodist Episcopal church,
however, whenever it shall appoint a
commission to consider the question
of union the president of the general
conference is authorized to appoint a
like commission to consider terms. The
president Of the conference also lis
given authority to call the conference
together whenever any commission On
union shall request it.
The conference completed the cleo
ton of officers and decided to adjourn
tomorrow. The following officers were
elected:
Rev. J. c. Berriam. of Pittsburg. secre-
taTy and treasurer of the board of min
isteTial education; Rev. DIR. J. T. Ogburn,
of North Carolina, secretary and Treasurer
of the board of foreign missions: Rev. G.
N. McManiman. of Ohio, secretary and
treasurer Of the board of home missions;
w. F. Pierpont, agent Of the Pittsburg
book concern, and Rev. Il. r. Woodford.
of Maryland, agent of the Baltimore book
concern.
Another church consolidation pfan
was agreed to at the night session,
contemplating the amaIgamation Of the
SIX Methodist churches In Japan.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-28
LETTERS FROM THEPEOPLE
is Corporal Punishment an Aid or a
Hindrance In Training Children? I.

To the Editor OF The Globe:
| must take issue with T h e Clio b e
in its editorial of today. entitled, Spar
ing the Rod Do you think you can
beat brains, manners or morals into
child with either a switch or club?
Corporal punishment is 'barbarouS
relic" 1t was bad enough to punish
adults at the whipping post. but little
children, no. / do not believe anyone
being thraShed, and l am satisfied that
many children have been driven to hate
their homes and parents by being beaten,
and can date their fall in life to the ex-
ercise of what to me is the very vicious
proyerb OF Spare the rod and spoil the
child. | thoroughly believe many more
are spoiled by the use than by the lack
of use.
Suffer little children to come unto me.
for such is the Kingdom of heaven If
this beautiful statement Of our Savior
be true, certainly little children cannot
be very bad. Crawford Livingston.
st. Paul, May q.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-28
Contemporary Comment


Why should not the Chinese take a
nand IN the fighting? They have every
Ihing to lose by a final Russian tri-
uinpnss They have everything to gain
from a Japanese victory in Manchuria.
They remember what happened when
the war between Japan and China was
ended; how the Japanese withdrew
and China took back all her territory,
except In the Korean peninsula. They
recall also the policy of China not
merely after the Boxer riots, when
China expected to pay an indemnity.
but In the following years of peace !;
When Russia each year claimed more
and more, and became an open and
shameless rohber of the Chinese en-
pre- If Russia wins, it is simply a
matter of time before all of China that
Russia can use will he annexed by the
car If japan wins, the Chinese have
a guarantee that the empire will last
as long as Japan can keep it intact
Boston Advertiser
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-28
AN ANCIENT lNFLIcTIoN.

Even thus early we have begun to.
hear from the prominent" man, of one
party or another, who reluctantly
sends to the newspapers a long and
fervent declaration of remuneration OF
his old political associations. He is the
party who finds himself compelled by
conscientious restraint to sever all his
old political relations, and with deep
regret ally himself to the opposition.
If you will turn to the files of any
newspaper during any national cam
paign since memory runneth not to
the contrary, you will find this gentle
man constantly in evidence. He is the
perennial and perpetual nuisance, and
his generation dieth not.
This is one of the cheapest known
methods of personal advertising, and
the publishers association ought tc
take cognizance of it. 1t is time that
all the newspapers shut out these no
toriety hunters, or charged them card
rates for their announcements as pure
reading matter. That is what it is.
The man who has really made up his
mind to change his party attachments
is never proud or glad of it, and never
wants to tell the news with ringing of
bells and beating of drums. He leaves
with the utmost sorrow and detection
attachments that have lasted for
lifetime, and parts with a bitter
wrench from old convictions that must
now be half held and half denied. He
no more wishes to give publicity to
such an unhappy episode than he
wants to insert in the newspapers a
notice Of any other personal or family
misfortune. When you see him rush
ing into print, you may know that it is
personal advertising that he is after.
These remarks are apropos Of the
announcement carried by all the press
dispatches of the detection to the Re-
publican ranks of a gentleman whose
title to fame seems to be that he is
son Of his. father. His father we
know and revere. The son we have
heard of only as a high official in n
great railroad system. If he wants to
vote the Republican ticket, there are
no obstacles in his way that we know
of. If the Republican party thinks his
accession notable gain, it is free TO
put the fact on bilIboards. But wheth-
er a man be Republican or Democrat,
whether his change be for us or
against u.s., whatever may be the al
legged reasons for his act, we shall re-
gard with the utmost suspicion not un-
mixed with something Of contempt the
| man who hurries into print to declare
that his party has become too bad for
him, when he means it to be under
stood that he had grown too good for
his party. 1t sounds like the Phari-
see and the hypoerite; and we could
wish that the press and the public
| might be relieved of the burden of
this quadrennia1 personal advertising,
which has begun this season much
earlier than usual
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-28
The Weakness of Unions.

The one weakness of labor unions
today is the Indifference of the many
members, which is taken advantage of
by the few Just as great cities elect
bad officehofders because thousands of
honest voters neglect to attend the
polls, so trades unions go astray
through the Vaccinations of the rad
ica1 and the evil-lninded. The most
successful union, the most influential
union, is Invariably that in which
meetings are numerously attended and
every one takes an active interest in
the welfare of the body. If a shining
example is wanted it is found in the
United Mine Workers of America
National Labor Tribune
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-28
NO ROOM FOR cLEMENcY.

The Globe dislikes exceedingly
TO reflect either one way or the other
upon any cause that may appear be-
fore the board of pardons It's gen
eral principle is not to discuss at all
questions in which a judicial opinion
is pending, and under that rule prop
erIy come cases before executive or
determinative boards. 1t feels obliged,
however, to- refer to petition now
brought before the board of pardons,
because it involves a principle that
seems to us utterly vicious and inn
proper.
The plea for mercy is interposed in
the case of man who murdered his
wife. There is no question about the
commission of the act. There is no
question about the character of the
, man. He formerly conducted a dis
orderly house, and killed his wife in a
saloon after a quarrel. The sole plea
advanced in his behalf is that he was
temporarily insane. When first ap-
pretended he admitted the act in de-
tail, but now claims that he has no
recollection of it, and that it must have
been perpetrated in a moment of men
tai alteration
Now the country has, happily,
emerged from it's long period of tenn
/ porary insanity, when the plea of tenn
porary insanity was generally admit
ted as a valid defense against bloody
crime. Murderer after murderer went
free because, although he never before
in his life showed symptoms of mental
arrangement, and although his trial
and what followed it found him shrewd
in anything required for his acquittal,
he could plead that for an instant, at
/ the time of the act itself, he was ir-
| responsible. Courts and juries have
come to regard this defense with the
utter disfavor that it merits. The
desperate criminal no longer goes free
| because he calls the high pitch of pas
sion that necessarily accompanies a
| personal assault by the name of tenn
| porary insanity. There is a more gen.
eral recognition, too, of the sound
| principle that man so little RESPONSE
BILE as to be unable to refrain from
killing another is too little responsible
to live among his fellows.
That argument, which has ceased to
be effective with the agencies of the
law, and which has been utterly re-
jected and repudiated by sound public
| opinion, ought not to weigh with the
board of pardons. If clemency is to
be extended in such case as this,
what virtue is there in laws and what
criminal may not hope for respite?
The step from Communication Of the
| death sentence to imprisonment for
life is a prelude to the step from inn
prisonment to liberty, and the most
desperate, acts of the most desperate
men will invite only retribution linn
tied as to time and severity. The par
doning power was not designed for any
such abuse as this. @gie board of par
dons ought to make Short work Of such
an application
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-28
At St. Paul Theaters

Camille" played by Florence Stone
ana company, will be the bill at the
metropolitan this afternoon, and it
promises to be the largest matinee of
their engagement. Tonight "Niobe"
VIII be presented for the last time. To-
morrow night and for the first half of
the week, including a Wednesday mat
lnee, Shamus O'Brien'' viii be the bill.
Inere VIII be special Memorial day
matinee at p. m. at which time
shenandoah will be repeated.
seat sale for the musical comedy. :"
Glrl From Dixie which plays at the
metropolitan for three nights and a
Saturday matinee, beginning next
Inursday, will open Monday morning
at a. m.
Anne Blancke in "a Little Outcastn
VIII close her engagement at the Grand
Lne current week with matinee to-
day at 2:30 and final performance
tonight.
Beginning tomorrow night. with the
usual matinees and a special matinee
ON Monday, Decoration day, a melo-
drama entitled Remember the Name
VIII be the attraction at the Grand.
The Bon Ton BurlesqueTs will close
a very successful engagement at the
star today. The ladies' matinee yes
teroay was attended by the largest au-
dlence OF women Of the season.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-28
TODAY.S WEATHER
WASHINGTON. d. G.. Nav 27-Fore

WASHINGTON, d. c., May 27.-Fore-
cast:
Minnesota Saturday; Sunday
showers; fresh west winds
Upper Michigan-FaiF Saturday; Sun
day showers; fresh west winds.
IoWa-North and South Dakota and
Montana-Fair Saturday and Sunday.
Wisconsin+Fair Saturday; Sunday
showers in north, fair south; fresh north
west winds.
st. Paul Yesterdays observations.
reau, St. Paul, w. E. Oliver, observer. for
the twenty-four- hours ended at 7 O'clock
last night-Baromete corrected for tenn
perature and elevation. Highest tempera-
ture, 70; lowest temperature, Al; average
temperature, 5S; daily range, %; d. m
temperature. IS; barometer. 3o.02; humid
ity, .54; precipitation, %; D. m wind
northwest; weather. clear.
YeSterIiaX,s TemneCa tureS-
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-28
A cIerayman,a achaste Impudenee.v ?

A certain quality of chaste impu-
dence was needed by the Washington
clergyman who, in his sermon Sunday.
rebuked the president and his wife be-
cause they attend different churches.
Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt may be pecul-
lar in this respect, but that is their
right. They might be much worse, in
this clergynan's eyes, and attend no
church at all. AS a matter of fact,
both the president and his wife have
displayed loyalty to the church in
which each was reared; and if in ma
ture life, the Dutch Reformed suits the
president and the Protestant Episcopal
suits his wife, let the people rejoice
Springfield Republican,
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-28
TABLES TURNED
ON REPUBLICANS
They Enter Campaign With
Enormous Treasury Deficit
to Apologize for.
Globe Special Washington Service.



1417 G Street.
WASHINGTON. D. c.. Nav 27-Tba
governments fiscal year will close in
ABOUT a month-almost simultaneously
with the beginning Of the Renuhlican
political campaign-and the admins
Irat1on oft1cials have already begun to
TI TPologize for the poor condition of the
united States treasury. It is onJv
elsht years ago that the Republicans
were making big political capital ont
oA the TACT of a bankrupt treasury"
ana the existence of a treasury deficit
was charged up to the Democratic ad
Inlhlstration as an Illustration of the
Democracys alleged inability TO run
the government
Yet the situation is now in many re-
spects the same as it was then. There
is now deficit in the treasury
amounting in round numbers TO S5O
VVO,0OO. That is to say, the Republican
administration has spent since the
Ifst OF last July $50 0000, 900 more than
1t has received
An effort is being made by the ad-
Lllhlstratlon leaders to charge this I'M
to the purchase of the Panama canal
GoLli pdhy rights and property on the
~ dSthInus. 1t is true that exactly $50
OOO,V0O has been expended by the GOV
erhment during the last month on ac-
count OF the canal payments. but if is
certain that there will soon be a deficit
IN the treasury Independent of the
canal disbursements. In three differ
ent months since last July there has
peen an excess of expenditures over
receipts, due to the extravagant an
preparations of Republican congress.
ana the Republicans realize that they
must pear the burden of this condition
durlng the coming campaign
II IS probable that there will be an
efort to make a favorable treasury
showing in June, for it has been the
custom of the administration in each
year Tor several years to hold back
payments during the last week in June,
SO that as good a showing as possible
fiscal period.
New appropriations will become inn
medlately available after July 1, and 1t
IS expected that, in view of the size Of
these appropriations as authorized by
the late session of congress, the deficit
will continue throughout the political
campaign.
The available cash balance in the
United States treasury is now only a
little over $160,000,00O, and this is not
all in the treasury proper, the great
bulk of it being on deposit in national
banks. The policy of all treasury ad-
mln1StratiOnS has been to keep a work.
ing cash balance in the treasury prober
of not less than $50,000,000. The avail
able funds in the treasury are now
less than $4,000, 900, however, and there
is no prospect of an early improvement
in this condition.
Walter E. Clark
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-28

Continued From First Page.
line under the chapter on special services:
''Amusements - Improper amusements
and excessive Indulgence in innocent
amusements are serious barriers to the
beginning Of the religious life and fruit
full causes of spiritual declines.
Some anusements in common use are
also positively demoralzing and furnish
the first easy steps to the total loss of
character. We therefore look with deep
concern on the great increase Of amuse-
ments and on the general prevalence Of
harmful amusements, and lift up sol
emn note of warning and entreaty, par
ticularly against theater-g going, dancing
and such games of chance as are frequent
ly associated with gambling; all of which
have been found to be antagOnistic to
vital piety promotive of wOrldIiness and
especially pernicious to youth.
1--WE affectionately admonish all our
people to make their amusements the
subjects of careful thought and frequent
prayer, to study the subject of amuse-
ments in the light of their tendencies.
and to be scrupulously careful in this
matter to set no injurious example. We
adjure them to remember that the ques-
tion for a Christian must often be, not
whether a certain course of action is
positively immoral, but whether it will
dull the spiritual life and be an unwise
example. We deem it bound duty to
summon the whole church to apply
thoughtful and instructive conscience to
amusements and not to leave them to ac-
cident or passion, and we affectionately
advise and beseech every member of the
church absolutely to avoid the taking Of
such diversion as cannot be used in the
name of the Lord"
Nearly a score of speeches were
made on both sides
Upon the order of the previous ques-
ton, nay and yea vote was demand
ed, for the first time during the pres
ent conference. The calling Of the roll
occupied the remainder of the after
noon session.
The conference voted to extend aid
to seven partially supporting
church papers, the amounts voted
ranging from $4,000 to $3.50 each per
annum.
M. NJ. Randall, OF Tacoma. Wash,
was elected secretary of the Epworth
league, and J. T. Mcfarland of To-
pelIa, Kan, secretary Of the Sunday
School union.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-28
Admiral Stirling Takes cOoper's Place.

WASHINGTON. D. c.. May 81 An
nouncement is made at the navy depart
ment that the application of Rear Ad-
miral Philip Cooper, commander-in-c chief
of the Asiatic station, to be relieved of his
command in October and retired will be
granted. Rear Admiral Stirling now
commanding the cruiser squadron Of the
Asiatic fleet, will succeed to the COM
mand of the station and remain com
mander- chief until the expiration of
his cruise late in the autumn, when Capt.
William NJ. Folger will succeed to COM
mand of the station. Capt. Folger's sue
cessor will be Capt. James H. Traine,
now chairman Of the board of inspection
and survey. Capt. John H. Dayton, now
member Of the general board of the
navy. will succeed to the presidency of
the board of inspection and survey
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-28
SATURDAY, MAY 2s, 1904.
SETTLE THE QUESTION.

Corporation Attorney Michael in
commencing proceedings against the
st. Paul Street Railway company to
determine the legal rights of the city
and the company is moving in the right
direction. 1t is to be hoped that all
expedition will be used in bringing
about a final adjustment of these diff
ferences.
The numerous suits recently COM
menced, not without some understand
ing with the railway company, as
many believe, are evidence of a desire
on the part of that corporation to liti-
gate. Unfortunately our experience of
the methods of the company compeIs
the suspicion that it is litigation and
not an adjustment of its rights that
induces it to resort to the courts. Mr..
Michael proposes to put the matter
squarely up to the courts. How the
company will receive this sudden and
direct attack remains to be seen. If
its agents have been sincere in their
professions, the city will be met half
way and the question disposed of
finally.
1t is more than doubtful whether the
street railway company has any rights
on our streets save such as are. con-
ferred specifically by it's latest fran
chise, relating to electric traction only.
The franchise ordinance of 1872,
granting rights for horse car lines.
has been allowed to lapse, ac-
cording to the views of well-in-
formed lawyers. No attempt has been
made to keep alive the provisions
: of that franchise. 1t was granted spe-
cifically for the purpose of permitting
the operation of a horse car system.
The later ordinances were not supple
mentary, in that they dealt with an
entirely different proposition in trac-
tior. If the street railway company
has no other than an electric franchise
it is directly liable to the 5 per cent
tax, if any extensions or changes are
made in its system.
There will be no attempt to split
hairs, as there is no desire to do other
than justly in settling this question.
The company enjoys immensely valu-
able privileges, for which capital today
would be willing to pay handsomely
and submit to the gross earnings tax
and give lower fares besides. Where
these privileges are supported by the
law they will be protected. But ex-
actly as the company viii not surren
der the slightest claim, even though it
may seem eXtravagant, until the issue
has been tried, so the city should not
WELD an iota of the wise provisions en-
bodied in the new charter unless it
shall be determined that they do not
apply Justice should and will be done
on both sides. st. Paul owes much 70
the vigilance and legal skill with which
Mr.. Michael has handled the question
and desires that the case be tried to
the uttermost and all matters in doubt
be settled now and for all time to
come.