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The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17
LETTERS FRuM THE PEOPl E
Public Education Free, but Higher Edu-
cation Should Be Paid FOR.

Public Education Free, but Higher Edu-
cation Should Be Paid FOR.
To the Editor of The Globe:
I/belieVe with T he Clio b e that We
should make the grade Of the public schools
of such high standard that any pupil IL
so inclined is able. after leaving the school
to go into any kind Of business and keen
a set of books After that make the high
school self-supporting; or in other words
any body who wants his child to have
Who pays the taxes to maintain the high
schools at present? It is principally the
thousands of small taxpayers who never
have any benefit from them. If ANYBODY
wants his child to learn trade nobody
else expects to pay for 1t. The same
with high schools. High schools in Eu-
ropean countries are self supporting
Some will say, but this is a free coun-
try we must educate our children
I agree with this as far as the public
schools go. but win you give your chill
dren an extraordinary education at the
expense of others? Others will say, the
poor man has chance to give his child
a higher education. To those I'll saw
time is money II you can afford the
time to Sead your child to the high
school. you can afford to pay a tuition
fee. which must be only small compared
with the time think I am correctly
Informed that over one-haf of the stu
dents IN German universities are from the
common people. We very rightly boast
of cur glorious country, and the condi-
ti0n of our mechanics and wurkingmen,
cannot we do as much as those people
across the pond? III. Bielenberg.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17
ARMY LAW AND JUSTICE.

Gen. Carr in promulgating and con-
ffrming the findings of the court
martial in the case Of Lieut.. William
P. Kits, Twenty first infantry, admin
listers a sharp rebuke to the members
Of the court for the verdict of not
guilty. The laity cannot quarrel with
Gen. Carr for his criticism of the
court, but it is rather rough on
young officer to be subjected to a pub
lie reproof at the hands of his COM
manding officer after having been
found not guilty by a competent court
with all the facts before it.
Lieut.. Kits is the victim Of his own
enthusiasm in the public service. He
had certain duties to perform. In
order to properly perform those duties
it was necessary for him to have a
wagon. The vehicle provided by the
military authorities was falling to
pieces. A government blacksmith told
him the wagon could be fixed, but it
would take some weeks to do the job.
The smith had another wagon, iden-
tical with the broken down vehicle in
make, but in much better condition
than the old one. He offered to make
a trade, accepting the cost Of the re-
pairs on the old wagon as bonus. Lieut..
Kits, with the jealous enthusiasm Of
youth refused to loaf around for a
couple of months while the repairs
were being made. He accepted the
offer, saved the government time and
money-and was presently ordered un-
der arrest. The circumlocution Office
was Mortified. The Goth and 61st ar
tcles of war were invoked and kits
incontinently laid by the heels. A
court of inquiry sat upon him, after he
had been in nominal arrest for some
weeks. The accused was found not
guilty upon all the specifications.
Gen. Carr in reviewing the verdict
says that where penal statute is
violated the intent of the accused is
not to be considered. Which may be
good army law. but it is not the less an
outrage on justice. A man cannot
commit crime if he has no intention.
He may blunder. and blunders NAV be
punished. but the intent is the essence
of a crime
Lieut.. kits should find strength to
stand up under his Affections. His in
nocence has been proclaimed bv q
court-martial. He is not the first vic
tim of red tape and he will not he the
last 1t is to be regretted that at the
outset of his career, he should be SUBJ
Jected to humiliation which is cal
culated to destroy his ambition for in
dependent action and which makes
him martyr to regulations absurd
but apparently inexorable-for we
must suppose that Gen. Carr had no
other recourse than to indulge in the
published comment upon the court
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out. They have decided that conspic-
uous examples must be made. They
did not dare quite to enter the lists
against the president, but they have
gagged him. If he had not agreed to
listen to reason. if he had not taken the
back track on the tariff. If he had nor
hauled down his flag to the stand
patters, if he had not willingly eIimi-
mated all question of tariff reform in
this Campaign, he, too, would have
been beaten. He is permitted to he
named a candidate at the price of ig-
nominy, but he must see his friena
Cumnins follow the role of martyr
for the same offense.
The lesson to our people is obvious.
Tariff robbers are in absolute control
Of this government and of the Repub-
Iican party. Like their prototypes in
government who ruled by the strong
hand, they tolerate no whisper of dis
sent. For the rebel there is only the
gibbet and the stake. They do not
propose to relax one iota of their con-
troll or remit one penny of the bur-
dens they have laid upon industry.
They do not mean that the tariff
shall be revised or reformed or touch
ed in any particular. They have served
this notice upon the country and made
1t good upon the body of the Repub-
lican party through the person of Gov.
Cummins. 1t is an impressive lesson.
What have the people to say to these,
their masters; and will they not turn
to the Democracy as the only free
organization in this country today and
as their only hope Of relief?
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17
CORTELYOU MAY BE
REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN
Blythe, of Iowa, Will Conduct Roose-
velt's Compaign in the West.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 16 -
George B. Cortelyou, secretary of labor
and commerce, it seems very likely
now, may be selected as chairman of
the national Republican committee.
Mr.. Cortelyou sustains very close re-
lations not only with President Roose-
welt, but also the party leaders through
the country. If he should be selected
he would resign his position in the
cabinet and devote his time to the work
of the campaign.
1t is reasonably certain that J. w.
Blythe, of Iowa, will be prominently
identified with the conduct of the Re
publican campaign in the West, and it
is likely that he may be the vice chair
man of the national committee or a
substitute chairman in charge of the
Western end of the campaign. Cor
nelius N. Bliss, of New York, for many
years treasurer Of the national COM
mittee, probably will again fill that
position.
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ness will go on. 1t will simply slink
into blind pigs or openly defy the
agents of the law.
The first thing for the people Of the
Midway district to do Is to get to-
gether and determine calmly upon the
practicable mere crusade by pro-
hibition element will accomplish MOTH
ing. An open defiance Of law by the
silent element will accomplish moth
ing. What seems to us most desirable
is calm and reasonable conference
among the whole people Of the district.
If they could get together and talk
this matter over, free from the die
tatfon of preconceived IDEAS, free
from abstract theories, and decide for
themselves, their decision would stand.
One Of two things ought to be done.
Either the liquor traffic should be ex-
terminated, root and branch, now and
for all time from the Midway district,
or 1t should be Iegalized by the estab-
nshment there of one or more author
ized and licensed places for the sale of
liquors. Which of these policies should
be followed depends upon the senti-
ment of the community; not upon that
Of one man or one faction or one fol-
lower, but of the whole community,
by which every local regulation must
openly adopted and actually enforced
is infinitely better than pretense and
hypocrisy and secret contempt of law.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17
TODAY'S WEATHER

WASHINGTON. D. c., May 16.-Fore-
cast for Tuesday and Wednesday:
MINES sota-Fair Tuesday and Wednes-
day; variable winds. si1
Lower and Upper Michigan-Fair and
warmer Tuesday; Wednesday fair, Vari-
able winds.
Indiana and Illinois-Fair Tuesday, ex-
cept rain in south portion Wednesday
fair warmer; variable winds
Iowa-Fair Tuesday and Wednesday,
warmer Wednesday,
North and South Dakota-Fair Tuesday
and Wednesday; warmer Tuesday.
Wisconsin-Fair, warmer Tuesday;
Wednesday fair; fresh south winds.
ST. Paul IS Yesterdays observations
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau, St Paul. W; E. Oliver. observer, for
the twenty-fouT hours ended at o'clock
last night-Barometer corrected for tenn
peratuTe and elevation. Highest tempera-
ture, 61s lowest temperature, 81; average
temperature, 49; daily range, a., barom-
eter. % 81; humidity, .54; precipitation,
%; Z p. m. temperature, SO: q p. m wind,
east; weather. partly cloudy
Yesterdays TempeFatures-~
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SALTWATER

The case Of Augustus Perry against
David Tozer was submitted to a jury
in the district court yesterday after
noon. Mr.. Perry brought an action to
recover damages for the care and
nursing of his son, who recently re-
covered large sum from Mr.. Tozer
for the Nloss of one of his legs while
employed in the Tozer mill.
Great preparations are being made
at Lily lake by Seventh Day Ad-
ventists for the annual encampment
for Minnesota, which is to be held
there beginning May rs. Tents are to
be erected in which the visitors viii
live while here and there will also be
barge tents in which services will be
held.
Louis Lohmann, of Lake Elmo, sus-
tanned a severe hre loss when his large
warehouse, filed with farm machinery.
buggies,. ETC., was totally destroyed.
The loss is $4,000 to $4,000. The
building and conents were insured for
$4,000. The origin Of the blaze is un-
known.
About twenty-five carpenters and
maehinists vii leave st. Paul early this
morning for Cranbrook, 3. c., where
they will build a sawmill for Otis
Staples, of Saltwater. Most of the men
are from StiIIwaaer and expect to re-
main West until next winter.
The city yesterday began grading
the Carnegie lots, which have been in
bad shape since the handsome building
was finished last fall. The cost of
grading and soddfng will be material
and it win take several weeks to com
pete the job.
The finance committee appointed to
raise funds for new opera house in
this city will begin its canvass Of the
city today. Stock IS to be sold at sos
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17
MASSACHUSETTS MEN
ARE FOR RECIPROCITY
Mass Meeting Declares for Changed
Trade Relations With Canada.

BOSTON, Mass, May 16.-The mass
meeting in Faneuil hall tonight, called
by President Henry M. Whitney, Of
the Boston Chamber Of Commerce, in
response to a petition signed by over
10000 business men Of Massachusetts.
to further the cause of reciprocity
with Canada and Newfoundland, was
largely attended.
Resolutions embodying the purposes
of the meeting and providing for the
appointment by the president Of the
Chamber Of Commerce of a committee
of 100 which should lead the fight for
reciprocity, were adopted.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17
New Lake Superior Directors.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 16.-An-
neuncement was made today by the re-
organizers Of the Lake Superior COM
pany that the following named men
have consented to become directors in
the new corporation: J. Tatnan Lea,
Charles s. Hfnchman and Francis b.
Reeves, of Philadelphia; John T. Ter
ry, Charles E. Orvfs and Dumont Clark,
New York; George B. Turrell, Orange,
N. J.; G. d. Warrent, Toronto, Cam
ada. and Thomas J. Drummond Mon
treal, Canada.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17
Personal MENTION

J. J. Mccarthy, a. prominent attorney Of
Dubuque. Iowa, was caller at the state
capitol yesterday.
Gov. Van SAINT, who was called to Dav-
export, Iowa. by an injury to cousin, is
expected to reach st. Paul today on his
return.
Ryan-Frank A. Barber Duluth; e. M
Mullard. Sioux City; r. B. Martinson and
wife, Pierre s. D.; w. p. Bettendorf
Davenport, Iowa: James c. Jones, st.
Louis; Henry Schmitz Detroit Mich :
F. w. Hubers Dayton, Ohio; A. r. Molin-
eaux, Cherokee.
Merchants-s. IS. Callahan, Spokane; L.
J. McKinnon, Bottineau. N. D.; G. NJ
Gress. Sleepy Eye; H. c. Huebner, Du-
luth II. j. Richardson, Rochester; M. B.
Morton and wife, lie Sueur; w. Schmidt,
Springfield; G. Ii Sorenson and wife, AL
bert Lea; j. r.! Johnson and wife, Spring
Valley. ItE
windsor-F s! Cone. Window; r.. e..
Horsman Rice lake. Wis; P. NJ Leish-
man, Charles City. Iowa; c. o. Baldwin,
Duluth; MO. Autolee, Two Harbors;
George KnobIaeh and wife, Carver; ]. c.
Englest, Anaconda, Mont; B. H. Kramp,
Owatonna; T. J. Zinor Crookston; T. NJ.
Pugh, Duluths G. A. Schley, Texas; F. R.
Ugan Yanktol, S. D.; NJ. R. Brown,
Crookston; 1. r. Barto. Sauk Center.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17
What the Editors Say

Ine government cases against land
gFapbers, charged with conspiring to
QeIraud the government of public lands
IN the state of Oregon, were brought
70 an abrupt conclusion the other day
py pleas of guilty being made when
tne~defendants were arraigned in the
United States court at Portland. The
ringfeader was fined $4,000 and the
others were let off with $100 fine. If
man merits ninety days for stealing
few sticks of wood from a lumber
Pile, these timber thieves certainly de-
serve ten years. Why this incon-
s1stency Swift County Monitor.
Ed Young, of Appleton, would Just
Ike to know what Brother DonahoWer
VIII do with Sam JOhnson's report 1t
is certainly a right bower for some
BODY, and the man who plays the game
right will take the trick on June &c.
st. Cloud Journal-P Press.
"A right bower for somebody" but
not for Sunny Jim" Martin or Alvah
Eastman. Such a frank admission
from the Journal-Press of the inten-
ton of the dealer surprises us.-Alex-
andrfa Post-News.
The decline and fall of congress may
be explained in a single word-"com-
mercialism says an exchange. There
used to be public interest in congress
sionaI debates. The beginning of the
decadence may be pretty accurately
dated from the time in the Sos, when
the Republican party ceased to be a
party of moral ideas, with tolerance
for divergent views on the tariff, and
became the undisputed property of
the protected fntereStS.-Mor Times.
The man who runs for governor on
the Democratic ticket in Minnesota
will certainly be entitled to a piece Of
the Carnegie hero fund.-Mankato
Free Press.
And unless the Republican papers
are liars and slanderers, the man who
will run for governor on the Repub-
lican ticket this year naturally and le-
gally belongs in states prison.-Fair-
mont Sentinel.
Frank A. Day, editor of the Fairmont
Sentinel and eX-ieutenant governor Of
this state, is being mentioned as dis
trict delegate to the national Demo-
cratic convention, to be held at St.
Louis in July. The honor would be
justly conferred on Mr.. Day. He de-
serves it and the newspaper boys along
the line will, no doubt, do some hus-
ting for him.-Sleepy Eye Herald.
When political parties go wrong it
is the highest duty Of the people to
administer a stinging rebuke. Bourke
Cochran and his fellow Democrats, for
their work, are entitled to the thanks
Of the American people, and the Re-
publican who tries to besmirch their
motives merits the eensure of all men
who love their country.-St. Cloud
Journal-Press.
Members of congress caught in the
postal scandal declare that they feel
perfectly innocent and their con-
sciences are void of offense. Republican
Senator Burton feels the same way.
In fact, Machen, Beavers and all the
others who have been convicted or in
dicted are blessed with the same self
ap9royaI.-St. Cloud Times.
Some Republican editors are limiting
that other Republicans are getting
money for supporting certain guberna-
torial candidates. and this accounts for
the boys going to st. Paul to get their
ears to the ground, and their abdomens
to the trough.-St. Peter Herald
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carneaie,s PhiIanthropy.

If plan shall be found where en-
ceuragement. can. be given to others
who are striving without impairing
the qualities which make for individ-
uaI independence, doubtless Mr.. Car
negie can employ his great fortune to
better advantage than in building IL
braries. But he would better die erich
and disgraced" than to employ in
propagating and fostering the plans
under which the socialists, alias soei-
ologists, are converting the pecuniariIy
unfortunate into a class of dependents
to become dead weight upon society.
Chicago Chronicle,
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17
TUESDAY, MAY II, 1904.
BOUND AT The STAKE.

POIt1cS as well as religion owns It's
martyrs. One of these is Gov. Cum
minis, of Iowa, whose tragic political
story was told in detail in yesterdays
Globe. No man tied to a stake while
savages flashed their knives and TOM
ahawks gleefully around his shrivel-
ing form was ever more truly a victim
than is this man, formerly the idol of
the people and the autoerat of the Re-
publican party in Iowa and now de-
posed from his high position and
doomed to future ostracism in Re-
publican circles.
Talk about "monopolies' and "fn-
fuence" and "the tyranny of trusts!"
Gov. Cumnins can exemplify all of
them in his own person. Upon him
they have vented the wrath they feel
at the slightest opposition. Him they
have selected as an example of the
punishment to be meted out to any
man who would weaken the bonds of
tyranny or break the oppression Of
the weak by the strong. The tariff
bred trusts at the East have looked
with alarmed and wicked eye at the
progress of tariff reform sentiment in
the West. Where a man of the party
that they own has aided this mutiny
BY so much as a sympathetic word,
he Is marked for torture. That is
why they have not spared Gov. Cum
minis.
In fact, the offense of the Iowa gov
ernor was no greater than that of
President Roosevelt himself. His dec
laration that the people must have
some relief from tariff imposition;
that they preferred to get it through
domestic competition if possible, that
they would accept it through competi-
ton from abroad If necessary. was no
fierce defiance. 1t was but a reason
able expression of the sentiment that
he found prevailing all around him.
1t was but the outbreathing of our
Western farmers, who are having
tribute daily to the trusts on every
necessary of life. 1t was a natural
and worthy sentiment for a man in HE
position and representing his constit-
uency
1t was no more positive, no more
radical, than the announcement made ar
the same time by Mr.. Roosevelt. The at
tention paid by the president to the
iowa governor showed how entire was
the sympathy between them in idea:
and that the president meant to stand
by the West In it's opposition to tariff
robberies. There was a moment at
which Cummins stood second in party
strength only to the president him
self.
What change has taken place since
then! 1t is not due to any change in
the opinion of the people themselves.
Today the demand for tariff revision
for sweeping away the abuses of pro-
lection on which the most infamous of
our trusts fatten, for abelishing the
wretched system of legislative favor
iusm' is stronger than it ever was be-
Iore' There are three men who believe
In 1t where there were but two when
Gov. Cummins first spoke. There are
thousands of voters in Iowa who knew
or cared, less about it then than thew
do today. Yet Cummins is beaten
disgraced and retired because of this
very fact.
The monopolies have decided that
this sentiment. so inimical to their
seace and prosperity. must be STAMPED
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17
LAKE CARRIERS WILL
TAKE UNITED ACTION
Another Meeting Is Called and Em-
ployes' Demands May Still Be
Resisted.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 16-At
meeting of the local vessel owners this
afternoon it was decided to issue a
general call for a meeting of all mem
berS of the Lake Carriers association
to be held here next Thursday to take
united action in regard to the dead
lock existing between that association
and the Masters and Pilots associa-
ton. "A strong sentiment prevailed
among those attending the conference
IN favor of continued resistance to the
demand of the masters and pilots.
Henry Coulby, general manager Of
the Pittsburg Steamship company and
member of the executive committee
of the Lake Carriers association has
issued statement in which he de-
clares he is in entire accord with the
position Of the association in opposing
the terms of the Masters and Pilots.
Mr.. Coulby says it is "a very serious
question whether it is possible for US
to deal with this organization for our
captains or not"
At the meeting of the vessel owners
it was practically decided to not deal
with the masters and pilots az an asso-
citation, but to engage the captains and
mates as individuals. The meeting on
Thursday will be to have the members
Of the association sign an agreement.
ROCHESTER,, N Y, May 16.-The
strike of the masters and pilots may
prove a serious matter for the miIlers
Of this city. Representatives Of i'm
portant local milling interests declared
today that if the strike was of long
duration the mills probably will shut
down rather than accept the alterna-
tive Of bringing their wheat by rail.
The railroad rates for this class Of
freight are about double the canal
rates. Very little grain has been re-
ceived here since the canal opened ten
days ago.
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chahnbSrlain,s Power.

That Mr. sChamberlain should be able
10 ralse a Eommotion- which threat
ened to rend his party and throw 1t
out OF power-is proof of the strength
Oh tne man,s<., But the. comparative
calm which has come. now that the
leader is not actively leading, seems to
indleate that without him the move
ment toward protection is not SO strong
as 1t appeared. to be, and may not
amount to much unless he reopens the
campaign with his old vigor. But if
he personally is unable to carry on the
nght 1t is doubtful whether there will
Tribune.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17
An Extensive Undertakinq.

do you suppose grating will ever be
stopped?'
Il don't know answered Senator Sorg-
hum. Somehow we don't get started to
out proposition. And in the meantime
something else has developed. We are al
ways on the TRAIL but we can't catch
up.'-Washington Star
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17
Still Learning.

The president is learning what some
of the Republican politicians thought
of him when he was a pestfferous mem
Der of the civil service commission.
1t is not too late for the president to
express a return opinion A little thing
like presidential campaign should not
stand in the way of so outspoken and
strenuous citizen.-Cincinnat En-
nuirar.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17

Uncle Joe Cannon says he will be
an archangel before he is a candidate
Tor vice president. And there really
does not seem to be any immediate
prospect of vacancy in the office of
archangel
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17

The rumor that Mrs. Hetty Green
had given away $550,OOO i'm charity
bore on the face of it the proof that it
was dastardly and underhanded at
tempt to show that Hetty had gone
daffy.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17

AS a candidate for the vice presi-
dency Hit seems to have made a hit
with himself at last, and we might as
well make it unanimous-if Somebody
will get Cannon to stop quitting and
get out of the way.
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Can Render Another Service.

Having. related how he put down the
disturbance in Chicago in 1894, Mr.
Cleveland can return to the problem of
how to put down the disturbance at
Lincoln, Neb., ten years later.-Kansas
City Journal.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17

Forty years ago a country Of trad
ing posts!" said the French visitor to
the st. Louis fair. "And now!" Oh,
now? Trading stamps. - New York
Herald.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-17
TineI

Calico had invented the clock.
'Phats the user queried a Florentine
"Begorra! Oh know enough to shtop Wurk
Whin the whistle blows
Fearing he had perfected a useless arti-
Gle, the inventor was plunged into despair
Judge.
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Killed All His Chances.

Henry James says race suicide is the
most encourag aging sign Of the times, as
it promises greater happiness for hu-
manity. Henry needn't apply for sec
ond place on the ticket.-Chicago Rec
ord Herald