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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
A TESTIMONIAL TO TAMMANY.

We desire to call the attention Of
certain esteemed contemporaries, who
never mention the name of Tammany
Hall without throwing several fits and
exhausting their stock Of abusive
epithets. to the following extract from
the editorial columns of the New York
Evening Post:
Heartiest Acknowledgements are due
Commissioner McAdoo for the ease and
certainty with which he has managed
a pool room raid in Brooklyn, and for
the promptness with which he is to
put the delinquent policemen on trial.
Those are the acts of a man who means
business. And candor forces the avow-
al that they are in rather damaging
contrast to the sensational and gen.
orally abortive campaigns conducted by
certain reform commissioners.
Commissioner McAdoo is the repre-
sentative of Tammany in charge of the
New York police department. That
department has been the center Of &C
tivity and the test of sincerity in all
efforts toward reform. For two years
Mayor Low and his appointees labored
with it. They went into power almost
entirely as a result of popular belief
that the police system of New York
was thoroughly corrupt. They left it
without having achieved any substan-
tial results for reform. It was turned
I,o III, - Ta,o,,oopxy x,,ban NTouor Mo
Clellan was elected, and the melan-
cho1y wall went up that the worst Of
old conditions would be restored.
Mayor Low had two years, in which
he accomplished nothing. Mayor Nc
Clellan has been at work not quite
three months. We presume that no
one will question either the intensely
critical spirit of the New York Even
ing Post or its utter detestation Of
Tammany Hall and all that the term
implies; yet the Post, though fire.
quently warped in Judgment, never de-
liberateIy falsif1es and is honest enough
to give credit to the political opponent
where such credit is due. The above
is the testimony it offers to a
Tammany police administration, and
the contrast which it draws between
that and it's reform" predecessor.
| Are there any Republican journals in
this neck Of the woods honest enough
to follow it's example and to give up
a line of comment, partly mere par
tisan cIap-trap and partly the express
sion of an opinion about a Democratic
organization formed long ago and held
to blindly in the face of subsequent
facts?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
BETTER ENFORCE CONTRACTS.

The sympathy and the approval Of
the public will be with those who are
in the first place attempting to oblige
the street railway company to build it's
promised line to PhaIen park; and,
second, to bring to time the contractor
who, either in collision with the street
railway company or on his own re-
sponsibility, has delayed his. work until
patience has ceased. 1t would be just
as wen to test the power of the city to
compel the company to construct this
line. st. Paul is not going to remain
indefinitely without such extensions
and Improvements in its transit faeili-
ties as are needed for its development,
and the street railway. company will
not be permitted to play dog in the
Manager.
It has been accepted, virtually, by
both sides as the law that the COM.
pany can obtain no new privileges
from the city without coming under
the provisions of the charter and pay.
ing. as it should, the tax upon its
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24

gross earnings. There are two doubt
full points, however, that might well be
cleared up. One is whether compile
ance with orders made some time ago
the company cannot be obliged to go
ahead with necessary improvements re-
CARELESS Of the fact that it would have
to come under the charter; in other
words. whether it can Indefinitely sit
down and evade the provisions Of the
fundamental law Of the city.
In connection with this it will be
vast Improvement If all the city au-
thorities are taught to enforce penal
ties upon delinquent contractors The
case In point seems a very fragrant
one. The delay has been out of all pro-
portion to any known necessity. But
there is hardly ever city contract let
where the contractor does not exceed
his time limit. In every case there is a
penalty provided, and in every case 1T
is waived. This is just as true Of one
administration and of one party as an
other, and is a common custom in
many cities of the country.
We believe 1t to be all wrong. When
a contractor bids for work he knows
just what he is doing. Usually the
time limit assigned is ample. If it is
too scanty, he takes that into account
in his bidding and adds to his estimate
the extra expense of rush work. There
is not a particle more reason why the
city should add a month or day to
the time limit than why it should add
dollar or a thousand dollars to the
agreed contract price. The delinquent
contractor for grading Forest street
deserves to be brought to book any
how. ALI delinquent contractors should
be made to live up to the terms of their
bargains, on general principles and as
a matter of public right.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
PERSONAL MENTION


Windsor-W. R. Gandal1 Jr.. Aurora
John j. Kugles, Chicago; Lori:I Gray and
wife. Mankato; Mrs E. A. Fletcher.
Staples; l. L Barges, Mountain Lake; w.
B. Clark, Omaha; John B. MetzIes, Chip
pewa Falls. Wis; SaiF. McCIorn, Ovation
ma; T. Caldwell. lie Sueur.
Merchants-E. F. White, Mason City; R.
e. Brenn, Mankato;0J. ]. Sutton Jr., Co
lumbus. Wis; r. J.. Burke, Spokane; H.
A. Dyke, Waterloo; Andrew Wright, Win
nipeg; j. N. Gadd,, Des Moines; j. S..
Stack, Superior; A. J.. Gourna, Lakota,
n. D.; H. F. Ellis. Fullerton n. D.; c..
C. Mcclure, Breckenridge.
Ryan-John McKechien and wife, Win
nipeg; P. WEIGH, Spokane; Charles e.
Bailey. Wheeling, w. Va; G. f. Pashfey,
Brooklyn; T. J. Cunningham, Chippewa
Falls; w. D. Kinney. Colfax, Iowa; E.
Jones. Kenosha; j. E. CoppIafrd. Richland
Center; G. w. Holdridge, Omaha; Peter
Larson, Helena, Mont
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
TODAY'S WEATHER

Minnesota-Rain Thursday, warmer in
northeast portion. colder in west portion;
Friday, fair in west, rain or snow In east
portion. much colder, brisk southeast to
east Winds
Upper Michigan-Rain or snow Thurs
day with rising temperature IN west por-
ton: Friday rain. warmer in east por-
ton, increasing southeast winds.
Wisconsin-Rain Thursday. warmer in
east portion; Friday clearing and much
colder. Increasing southeast winds.
Iowa-Showers THURSDAY warmer in
east colder in west portion; Friday fair
colder Thursday; Friday fair, warmer.
Nebraska and South Dakota-Showers
and much colder Thursday; Friday fair.
Montana-Snow Thursday, colder in
southeast portion; Friday fair, warmer.
St. Paul-Yesterday's observations,
taken by the United States weather bur
reau, St. Paul, w. e. Oliver, observer. for
the twenty-four hours ended at o'clock
last night-Baronneter corrected for tenn
perature and elevation. Highest tempera-
ture, So; lowest temperature. IS; average
temperature, 40; daily range, 15: barom-
eter, 0.10; humidity, so; precipitation,
O.; p. m. temperature, 81; p. M wind,
southeast; weather. cloudy.
Yesterdays TemperatureSH
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24

and that in all this mighty scheme
of finance 70 man has lost one dollar
through it's existence or its agency.
No argument and no advocacy could
be as eloquent as this fact The peo-
pie of the Northwest and the people
of the whole country appreciate today
as they never did before the ability,
the sincerity and the skill to plan and
to execute of Mr.. James J. Hill. and
what they owe to him.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
CANAL HEADQUARTERS
WILL BE IN PANAMA
President Determines to Attach Com
mission to War Department.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March %
Two important points have been devel-
oped in connection with the isthmian
canal commission. One is that the
headquarters of the commission probably
will be on the isthmus of Panama in
stead of in Washington. although an
office probably will be maintained here.
and the other, that all the time of at
least five of the commissioners will not
be devoted to the canal work. Their
private interests demand a part of their
time.
The commission has under considera-
ton the matter of establishment of per-
manent headquarters in Panama. The
indications are that it viii be found de-
sirable that the permanent offices of the
body shall be on the ground where the
actual work of canal digging is being
DONE Legislation pending before con-
gress provides for the appointment of a
governor of the American zone in Pana-
ma Should it be enacted into law it
is quite probable that the president may
designate Gen. Davis as the governor OF
the canal strip. Gen. Davis had expert
ence in the Philippines which especially
fits him for that position in Panama
The president practically has determin-
ed that the commission shall be attached
to the war department, under the bureau
of insular affairs.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
LIFE OF POSTAL
CARS IS LIMITED
House Adopts Amendment by
Tawney Fixing 1t at
Fiftern Years.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March o.
When the house adjourned today some
progress had been made in the read
ing of the postoffice appropriation
bill for amendment The ap-
preparation for the railway mail
service was carefully scrutinized, and
IN the case of inland mail transporta-
ton by start routes the appropriation
was scaled down from $8,10O,000 to
$7,S50,000
The question as to the length of
time postal car may be used before
it becomes unfit for service was set
tied by the house, when an amendment
by Mr.. Tawney (Minn.) was adopted
providing that no part of the appro-
priation shall be used for the rental of
cars which have been in service for
more than fifteen years.
Mr.. Tawney declared that many
postal cars have been in service from
twenty to thirty years. The old cars,
he declared, were weaker and lighter
than those more recently built, and as
result when accidents occurred these
cars were smashed. The number of
cars affected by the amendment, he
said, was 1913, in each of which there
were every DAY from two to four men,
whose lives were endangered. Mr..
TaWney insisted that experience had
shown the natural life of car to be
fifteen years.
This statement Mr.. Sibley (Pa.)
challenged, saying congress could not
arbitrarily fix the standard of
strength of cars.
Mr.. Oyerstreet said that the post
master general demanded inspections
and examinations of cars and COM
PEELED such changes in them as were
advisable.
Mr.. Tawney asserted that the
strength and resisting power of cars
built twenty or thirty years ago did
not meet the present conditions.
An unsuccessful fight was made
against the appropriation for special
mail facilities over trunk lines south
from Washington and west from Kan
sas City.
Senators Still Talk Indian.
The senate again spent the greater
part of the day considering the Indian
appropriation bill. Three hours were
given to discussion of a claim of $780,
600 for services rendered the Choctaw
Indians. 1t finally was eliminated
from the bill. The civil service debate
was renewed, and there was consider
able discussion of the policy to be pur.
sued in securing employees for work
on the Panama canal. The amendment
exempting agency farmers from the
civil service requirement was agreed
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
THE PREACHER AND THE PRESS
MAN

The Rev. Charles Scadding, Chi
congregation that the American news
papers of today are the best in the
world and he gave some reasons for
his belief. He, moreover, spoke by the
card, for he went into the ministry
from ournalisna-reversing the usual
procedure which lands the minister in
the editorial chair. He justified the
American newspaper In being what it
is by charging the people with re-
sponsihility for it. Said Mr.. Scadding:
The editor keeps his finger on the
public pulse, and he knows what they
require. To me 1t is a certain indica-
ton when the newspaper shows disin-
clination to publish an article that it
will not be read if published. This
being so, journalism and journalist are
largely what we, the people, make
them. Is it not, therefore. with us
Christian people to attempt to create
a demand for a high class of journal
lists who shall give us news truthfully,
without bias, and who shall be with
out mercenary motives?
This states the case clearly enough:
The people, not the editor-except in
the sense that he be capable Of appre-
ciating the public wants-make the
newspaper. In the infancy Of the mod
ern American newspaper the public
was so gently and intelligently followed
by such men as Horace Greeley, Charles
A. Dana and Henry J. Raymond,
among others, that the people saw in
them great leaders. Yet, in fact, when
they conceived that they were leaders
and essayed to act in large enterprises
of their own initiative they failed.
Modern journalism is essentially
clean and keen intelligence, and free
dom from bias and the domination
of the personal element, makes most
for it's success. Even the yellow editor
cannot afford to lead his clients in any
other direction than that in which they
desire to go. He can pervert the news
and pander to vicious tastes that al
ready exist, but his influence cannot go
beyond the limits that hedge the de-
pravity he seeks out and fosters.
The average American newspaper is
respectable, unbiased in the setting
forth of the news and smartly alert be-
cause the average American is respect
able, unbiased and smart. The news
paper makes for the improvement of
public morals because it shows the
evils Of immortality. 1t is successful
exactly in proportion to it's capacity for
printing that sort Of news which the
majority of the people desires to read.
It's first function is to print clean news;
incidentally the expounding Of policies
with reasonable intelligence and fair
ness is looked for. To expose dishon-
esty in official and political life and
exalt virtue by making it famous are
duties recognized by the modern jour-
nalist. The difference between the yell
low journal and the average American
newspaper is to be measured by the
difference in their respective readers.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
THURSDAY, MARCH "a. 1904.
MEDICATION.

No vindfeation of the purposes Of
those who framed the Northern Sc
curities company could be so telling
and complete as the circumstances
connected with its dissolution. That
which it accomplished during its life
for the companies involved, and that
own stock are now patent facts.
There is no longer reason to distort, mis-
represent or malign. And the universal
expression of opinion today is one of
regret that this great conception could
not have been permitted to carry to the
end the work for which it was Gre
ated.
Perhaps the commonest falsehood
hoated at the inception of the COM
pany and the one most sedulously re-
peated since, because most likely to
affect public opinion by creating pref
udiee, was that this was only one
more device to fleece the public by
forcing fictitious securities upon the
market. People who knew no better
were piled with the charge that North
ern Securities was but another in
stance of EQUALIZATION, by which
the public was to be made to pay
charges on hundreds of millions of Sc
fon
Glance, now, at the facts.
The plan for closing the affairs of
the company has been announced. The
capital stock will be reduced SO per
cent by delivering for those shares
stocks of the Northern Pacific corn
pany and the Great Northern company
on the same basis of valuation used
when the company was formed. There
is no margin of loss to the stock
holders there. The remaining 1 per
cent of stock will be covered by as
sets representing fully it's par value.
Therefore no investor has suffered
wrong, there was no overcapftaliza-
ton, and the whole transaction is
proved good financing. Of how many
of the great enterprises of the country
could this be said If they were forced
to a showing by a decision of the SUI
preme court?
Meanwhile, what has been done by
the company during it's existence? Ex-
actly that which it's trainers declared
to be their purpose; no less and no
more. The various properties included
have been managed efficiently, so that
the public had improved service at a
lessened cost, and the investor had a
better return on his capital. The
holding company assured stability Of
ownership. No market manipulation
could affect control or values, and all
out of great commercial problems.
Again it is enough to point to results.
No one can deny the assertion that the
people and the country served by the
Great Northern, the Northern Pacific
and the Burlington have derived more
benefit from those roads during the
existence of the Northern Securities
than at any other period. That is the
vindication on the practical SIDE
1t appears, therefore. and it is right
that the public should know and re-
member it, at the moment when the
Northern Securities goes out of exis-
tence, that 1t has been a suitable in
strumentality for the work to be done;
that it has been operated exactly and
successfully to accomplish the ends
stated formally to the public when it
was organized, and no other; that it
has injured no man; that it has devel-
oped the country and extended trade;
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
The Proposed Coal Strike.

If the advocates Of a strike count on
presidential Intervention and another
extra unconstitutional arbitration COM
mission they had better dismiss that
unavowed consideration from their
minds. We are on the eve of ma
tional elections but questions Of work
and wages in priyate industries will
not again be permitted to invade the
sphere of national politics. History
will not repeat Itself Chicago Even
ing Post.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
Skies Are cIearinu.

While there are still many things in
the Democratic situation to cause dis
quiet, the skies are. on the whole, clear
ing. The party is evidently not going
to accept certain counsels of madness.
The collapse of impossible blooms" for
the presidency goes on in cheering
way. Today. it is German who has dis
covered that the country is in no mood
to bid him go up higher. Hence he
ceases to be an "active" candidate, and
remains an aspirant only in the s.re-
ceptive" sense. That is, we suppose,
any delegations considered mere waste
may be thrown into the convenient
German eceptacle.-New York Even
ing Post.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
Shaw and AIdrich pecIaIm.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., March 23.-The
Republican national campaign in Rhode
Island was virtually opened tonight by
Secretary Of the Treasury Shaw and
United States Senator Aldrich. of Rhode
Island, who were the principal speakers
at the banquet of the Young Mems Re
publican club. Trust legislation, its pro-
gress under several administrations. and
the attitude of Former President Grover
Cleveland in regard to such legislation.
constituted the principal points of Secre-
tary Shaw's address, while Senator Aid
rich tried to impress upon his hearers
the necessity of organized effort in order
to insure party success.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
Contemporary Comment
New York's Commerce.

A large grain export movement
through ports other than New York
will result ultimately, it is feared, in
increased trade through those ports in
other commodities, domestic as well
as foreign. The apprehension is NOT
without basis. But both Chicago and
New York will have to yield gracefully
to the demands of new economic and
commercial situation created by the
development of great Southern trunk
lines having termini at Baltimore, Nor
folk, Charleston, Brunswick, Mobile,
New Orleans and Galveston. These
lines give transportation facilities
which did notsexistsa few decades ago.
They want business and offer lower
rates. 1t Is absurd to suppose that the
interior cities of the West will ignore
their Baltimore Sun.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
Mcclellan.

To find man with such a talent
for affairs as Mayor Mcclellan has
developed, combined with all Of the
attractive qualities of man of breed
ing and education, is indeed gratifying,
in a country where the trashiest
mountebanks are not infrequently adj
vanced to the positions Of municipal
rulers. In thes confusion and perplex-
ity which the national Democracy is
experiencing I'M seiscting an acceptable
leader for its presidential canvass this
year, it is scarcely possible that a man
SO well worthy of Aattering considera-
ton as Mayor dcGlellan will be over
Iooked.-Kansas city Star.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
Anarchists In Custody.

LIEGE, Belgium, March 23.-The au
thors of the recent bomb Outrages here.
two French anarchists, Loabin, alias
rested. They have confessed and say
their object was to avenge the expulsion
from Belgium of fellow anarchists. In
France Laobin has several times been
imprisoned for attempting to destroy
nIlhlic buildings.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
No Use.

..And so, DOCTOR" said the anxious pa
tient, "you think a little whisky would be
good for me. How much and how often
am I to take it?"
"well, 1 should say about one drink
week would be-
"Oh, goldarnit, I'm goin' to get up and
go down to the office. Chicago Record
Herald
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
one More Unfortunate.

"WelI, Smike,'' said the blind man to
the beggar, "how's the world using you?"
new hard-luck story, warranted to bring
tears to the eyes of rhinoceros. all l took
in last week was 81 shares of United
States Steel common and a pound of the
certificates of the Shipbuilding Trust.
There amt nothin' in Begin these days"
Town Topics.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
What Should Have Been Done.

1t is regrettabIe that the house did
not order an Investigation of the en-
tire postofiee department and let the
country know just what the facts
would show. There has been sufficient
revealed to cause suspicion that there
may be more. that thus far has re-
manned hidden. The Republican party
cannot be hurt by exposing miscon-
duct regardless of where it may have
occurred.Denver Republican.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24

The Duke Of Cumberland has refused
to let his daughter marry the kaiser's
son. The duke apparently lives too
near him to get a good large view of
the kaiser. You cannot see the whole
earth through crack in a door.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
stick to the Duties.

WASHINGTON. D. c., March 23-By
a party vote. the house committee on
ways and means voted down the motions
made respectively by Representative VII
MOI to favorably report bills placing
salt coal, hides, wood pulp agricultural
implements and other articles on the free
list.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24

Col. wright's guess that there was
100000 in the Democratic campaign
fund was no doubt a misprint. He
undoubtedly meant $10O,oO0,OOO. The
colonel would hardly like to be beaten
by the expenditure of such a trifing
sum as he was said to have named.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
Figure That They May Need EN-.

Hobson has set out to speak in every
schoolhouse in his congressional dis
trict in Alabama, and the pretty school
ma'an1s have sent in rush orders for
baseball masks.-Denver Republican
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
GETTING up J Baseball Team.

When Joseph Smith returned to Salt
Lake City from Washington he was
met by only thirty two of his chill
dren. This caused him to inquire with
true patriarchaI solicitude: Where
are the ?"--Kansas City Star.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-24
Among the Merrymakers
An Exclamation.

Eve have been accused of leaning to.
ward the japanese in this war business
says the BiiIville Banner. But such is
not the case. The fact is, our space is
limited and the names of Russian gen
erals and places not only warp our type
and knock our headlines sideways. but
take up all the room which otherwise
would be devoted to the victories or de-
feat of their armies Atlanta Constitu-
ton.