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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1904-02-17

The fact is becoming more and
more apparent that this town can
not afford to allow strikes and shnt
downs to stop it's factories ard bust
ness enterprises The conditions do
not warrant a stoppage of any thing.
At the same time they do not admit
of raises in wages nor do they JUST
iy the extreme rents and cost of liv-
King which have been the rule in
s city. 1t is good time to get
146An to common sense ID every ai-
rection. Employers are not the
enemies OF their workingmen and
the workingmen are not the enemies
NJ their employers. The best results
WA be gained by working for mutu-
al advantage. 1t helps neither to
quit woAs and this policy should be
frowned Upon by every one who has
the best interests Of the town and OF
himself a. heart. IL hurts all Of us
in the long rnu when any factory or
business OF any kind is stopped.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1904-02-17

For small organization the Anti
Saloon League is stirring up an aw.
full rumpus.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1904-02-17
GEAR GOES CRAZY
Russian Reverses Are Too Much
For That Ruler.

News From Every Whereof Japanese
yietories-Russiang B.sw Own ships
Ont Of Water Rumors Of Tremen-
deus Jap yictory-Ships Sink in
Every Direction.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1904-02-17

Many Book son want. II we don't
y II we get Il. That's the Acme's
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1904-02-17

The Wallace House closed it's doors
to guests at noon today. 1t is nc
longer open to the travelling or local
public, and the proprietor, James B.
Lantz, states that it will not be
opened for hotel purposes again.
The proprietor was indicted fer sell
ing whiskey in ten instances by the
grand jury and this is the direct
cause of the hotel being closed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
Contemporary Comment
ARuttina In.v

Mr.. Roosevelt in his time has played
many parts. He has been reformer,
member of the legislature, a scholar
in politics, a civil service reform cham
pion, a police commissioner, a family
mentor, trust buster, rough rider,
the hero of Gen. Sam Hawkins charge
up San Juan Hill, a bear hunter,
Colorado lion tanner, a cowboy, a lit
terateur, a perpetual holder of or can
didate for Office and general liver reg
ulator for this hemisphere. Now he is
appearing in the role of Happy Hooli-
gan, and he has already "butted into"
the Russo Japanese war in a way to
strain unnecessarily the relations be-
tween this country and Russia. 1t
ought to be easy enough for our gov
eminent to occupy an absolutely neu-
trail position between Japan and Rus
STA, no matter which way the sympa-
thfes of the people may lean. Our OBJ
servatlon is that about nine tenths of
the American people side with Japan
In the war; but that is no reason why
our government should get entangled
in the conflict Yet already Mr.. Roose-
welt has jumped into the game, and
Russia is looking at us askance: and
we have no more real right of any
KIND IN China, Korea or Manchuria
than We have in the moon. But we
have president now who seems to be
absolutely and constitutionally unable
to mind his own business, and of
course his administration. takes after
h1m.-MemphiS Commercials Appeal
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
THE PUBLIC STILL WAITS.

Thirty-six hours after the publica-
ton of the detailed statement by Mr..
w. B. Jordan, and five days after the
date of his letter to the board of con-
troll in which he made specific allega-
tions concerning prison affairs, Mr..
Bronson and Warden Wolfer come to
the front with their reply. These docu-
ments have therefore the advantage of
leisurely preparation. and it is scarcely
occasion for surprise that there is no
considerable discrepancy between them.
They amount to no more than a repe-
tition of the general denial already en-
tered The board of control still main
tains it's singular silence as to the
statements made before it by Mr.. Jor-
dan.
With all due Difference to the charac-
ter of the gentlemen in question, we do
not think that the people of Minnesota
will be satisfied to have this matter
settle down into a mere question of
veracity between the former contractor
on one side, the present contractor, the
warden and a relative on the other. It
is not thus that men usually act
Mr.. Jordan's charges are very spe-
cific and circumstantial. He has also
declared that he has evidence to prove
them. Obviously, after his absolutely
comprehensive statement given to the
public, he has done all within his power
to give it light. He is not public Off
cial, or connected in any way with Off
cial business, and no more could be ex-
pected of him unless his invitation to
prove his charges be accepted.
But a man who holds public place is
generally expected to furnish some
thing in addition to an affidavit when
publicly assailed, and to consider that
he owes both to himself and to the pub
lie completer refutation. For this, as
well as for an explanation from the
board of control, the people are still
waiting with what patience they can
Command.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

in case of a hostile attack. would be
at the mercy of the enemy. Therefore
the board contemplates bonbarding
one or both Of these cities in order to-
ascertain how best it's defenses may be
strengthened
There is nothing like a real war to
throw military and navy men into a
flutter Of excitement While the slower
layman struggles with the difficulties
of pronunciation difficulties that pre-
vent the present war from becoming a
popular subject for conversation the
men of the army and the navy have
doubtless taken Port Arthur a score Of
times, destroyed every inch of the
Trans Siberian railroad and driven the
Russians from VladivostoI. It is prob
able that every officer in the United
States navy has his little paper fleet
with which he fights the Jap-Russ bat
ties, and it is probable that every Off
Ger in the army has fortified himself
securely in an ina gfnary Hardin and
has snapped his fingers at the enemy
outside. To the average citizen of a
neutral nation, the war is interesting;
but to the military man of that nation,
it is absorbing. 1t is not surprising,
therefore, that having decided the
present war to their own satisfaction
the army and navy officers should look
about to see what they can do to keep
up the excitement.
To the majority of people, however,
those army and navy maneuvers in
which soldiers and sailors play at war
seem very much like expensive pas
times that the country could get along
very well without. Forts can be put
In good condition without bombarding
them; coast defenses can be strength
ened without mimic naval battle that
burns up money and amuses only those
who take part; and the experiences of
course to sham battles. This nation is
not proudest of it's army and it's navy,
although it is glad that it has the
means of defense should defense be
necessary. 1t does not want war and
the implements of war always in evil
dence. Spectacular military or naval
displays of any kind have a deleterious
influence ON the people, for in them
they see only the picturesque side Of
war. 1t is to be hoped that spirit Of
economy will prevent congress from
appropriating any large sum for such
expensive amusements as, it is report
ed, the joint army and navy board
contemplates.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

delibly upon the community. If ST..
Paul falls short Of the best political
possibilities, she will have no one but
herself to visit with reproach.
To Democrats especially we make
this appeal to civic duty and to party
pride. This should be one Of the great
years Of the party's redemption. The
country needs it and calls upon it. The
great stream draws it's supplies and
takes it's character from the innumer
able fountains that rise in distant and
isolated places. The ideals and the acts
Of local Democracy color those of the
state and enter into the determinations
of those of the nation. There can be no
surer starting point for the larger tri-
umph than for the Democrats of ST.
Paul to place in nomination list of
men so personally and publicly invul-
nerable that every honest citizen will
confess their worth
we nave ample MATERIAL. we have
such candidates in the field that if the
right choice be made the city's interests
will be as secure, from the highest posi-
ton to the lowest, as if they were in the
hands of combination of all our great
commercial and civic organizations.
Everything depends upon the individual
voter, who in this country is not only
the source of all power but the creator
of all results. Go to the polls next
Tuesday and do your duty, as you hope
for good government and as you wish
to respect yourself as man or as citi-
zen.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

the tour heightened out the audiences
flattened out, and hence these tears.
OF course the baron is not to be
blamed for imagining that we as peo-
pie are easily done. Indeed we have
been done early and often, we'll done,
effectively done, by amiable foreigners
with handles to their names SO many
times that striking a snag never even
entered the amiable baron's so-called
mind. If once or twice, why not the
third time? But the American people
are waking up; and while the beloved
Patti can fool a few of us part of the
time, the baron regrets that she cannot
fool all of the people all the time.
It is exceedingly sad that the baron
should leave these shores with hard
feeling against us as people. But if
it comes to a choice between retaining
our hard earned dollars and the af
lection of the baron, it is to be feared
that we shall be obliged to forego the
latter, much as we admire man of his
stripe
All of this shows that the American
people are learning wisdom, although
we cannot expect the baron to agree
with US in this conclusion. Refusing
to pay five dollars a seat to hear the
ragged remains of voice that once
echoed round the world spells progress,
even if by SO doing we damn ourselves
in the eyes of the baron. We can live
without the baron, but there might
come day when we would sadly say:
Where are the dollars of yesteryear?"
and then it is doubtful whether even
the baron would come to our assist
ance. 1t is quite likely that we have
gazed our last upon the indignant
baron. If so, we will endeavor to
bear 1T.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
Eliot and the Negro.

DR.. Eliot's views on the negro question
are those of an amiable and we1l-i in
tentloned theorist, too much disposed to
measure the whole world by the Massa-
chusetts standard, and who has not had
the time or opportunity to investigate
the probabilities of the negro problem
in the South. He is like the commits
s1oners sent by the French republic to
the West Indies. Mauritius and other
colonies in 1898, to settle the negro
question. and who, as Stevens says,
committed the greatest of all humani-
tartan crimes, for their theories cost
as many lives as the French revolution
itself, nearly destroyed the white race
throughout Frances colonial empire.
and utterly failed to benefit the negro
Or to solve any racial problem.-New
Orleans Times Democrat.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
WHAT PATHS HUSBAND SAYS.

The Baron Cedarstrom says that we
are money-loving people. This is i'm
portant if true. Probably Baron Cedar
strom knows. Indeed his remark would
probably be regarded in a court of law
as expert testimony. The baron's re-
mark was probably wrung from ten
der heart; people who do not easily
give up to hear the divine Patti
MARBLE with the remnants of a once
wonderful voice are indeed hard to
please. The baron is probably frantic
ally asking himself what the American
people do want. If not to hear the
wife of the baron, it is quite evident
that the love of music has died out of
their souls.
The baron is evidently worried about
us as a people When the fifth farewell
tour of the great diva-that-was began,
the baron then regarded US a great
people, all sweetness and light; for the
simple reason that from curiosity or
with a desire to renew the memories
of their youth, many person easily
separated from five dollars. went to
pray, and remained to weep. But as
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
THE WAR FEVER.

From a Washington correspondent
comes the story that the officers of the
joint army and navy board are follow
ing with the keenest interest the at
lacks on Port Arthur by the Japanese,
for they hope to employ similar tao
ties in their naval maneuvers this sum
mer. These officers, it is reported, have
discovered some appalling weaknesses
in out coast defenses- Fort Hunt is in no
condition to resist the enemy, Fortress
Monroe could not stop the passage of a
hostile fleet into Chesapeake bay, and
the fortress Cape Henry would be more
apt to beckon the enemy on than to re-
tard him. Because of the inadeauaey
Of the two forts mentioned and because
of the unfortified conditions of Cape
Henry both Baltimore and Washington,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

directed against the peace and pros
perfty of some portion of the Midway
district. They will keep coming in
definitely as long as there is a posi-
billty that they can pull wires enough
or find the people of the territory in
terested sufficiently unprepared to let
their proposition slip through. The
residents of this beautiful district
should not be called upon to wage per-
petual warfare. guarantee Of the
protection Of their rights should be
given to them voluntarily by the coun-
ell, and this inapudent proposition
should be permanently sauelched.
The projectors Of the amusement
park deserve now no consideration and
are entitled to no hearing. It has been
open to them from the first to locate
their concern where it would not be
especially Objectionable to anybody. It
Is purely selfish and money making
affair, carrying with it no public bene-
MT and no gain to the city There are
dozen different locations where they
could build their concern if they want
ed to, have an understanding with the
street railway company and run their
performances without disturbing any
body. Instead of that they have de-
hberately chosen, for the sake of draw
ing upon the idle and noisy population
OF both cities, to insist upon putting it
somewhere. in territory that has been
built up and occupied and beautified
by people of moderate means who love
quiet and the privacy of their own
homes above all else.
The men who have deliberately
adapted and adhered to this policy
have become practically public enc
mics. In the name of the city we pro-
test against obliging people of the Mid
way district to keep their guards al
ways out and the militia under arms
lest this Coney Island scheme get a
foethold somewhere in the wide inter-
urban territory. Let the council de-
clare it's intention and veto it once for
all.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
THE SINS OF SOCIETY.

The great criminal of the age is
society. 1t is responsible for every sin
of commission or omission of which
human nature is today guilty. The in
dividual receives the. credit for all the
good that is accomplished, but on So
ciety rests the burden of crime. A rep
resentative Of the Central Howard
Prison Reform association in an adj
dress delivered in one of the Evanston
churches Sunday, touching. naturally
enough, on crime, did not fail to place
the blame where all refermers are sure
that it belongs There are great
many forces at work in the social or
usual tendencies are often encouraged,
and on this account he is not always
real criminal is often society. Instead
of the man who is punished being to
society is to blame and the individual
suffers" in other words, this speaker
would have US believe that if an in
dividual, realizing that society sets an
example in extravaganza, chooses to
commit a crime in order that he may
follow that example, the blame is not
his but society's.
It is a most comforting doctrine and
may console many who fail to detect it's
RIGHTEOUSNESS. But it will not save
the individual who sins, although, I'M
fortunately, it may inspire many to go
and do likewise. Whoever strives to
lessen mans accountability weakens
him and hurts society just that much.
It is becoming too much the fashion to
lay the sins of the individual at So
ciety's door. AS matter of fact So
ciety is the victim instead Of the GRIM
inal. The reformer's hand is raised
against it and the hand of the man or
woman who commits crime is raised
against it, and between the two that
which ought to be a restraining infiu-
ence is in very bad odor indeed. When
a criminal stands before the bar of JUS
tice, the court does not consider wheth-
er or not society has extended a hand
to help him or whether it has encour-
aged him in his crime. He is regarded
as a responsible human being who is
capable of deciding right and wrong
for himself, and if it is proved that he
has decided for the wrong, the court
deals with him not as a victim of So
ciety but as one of it's offenders. And
the courts attitude should be the
worlds attitude.
For society is not an arbitrary ruler
that controls the individual and that is
accountable, therefore, for his crimes.
On the contrary, it is an organization
at the mercy of man, and in it the effort
of every individual, whether for good
or for bad, counts If the majority of in
dividuals who constitute society are in
the wrong, that cannot excuse the mi
nority for following their example. To
each man is given some knowledge of
what is right and what is wrong. 1t is
incumbent upon him to follow this
prompting. If he thinks that society in
the aggregate is in the wrong, let him
contribute his quota toward its eleva-
ton. But he should not permit himself
to believe nor should he say that which
would lead others to believe that So
ciety can serve as an excuse for sin or
crime.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
OUGHT TO BE sETTLEp.

It is nothing short of outra geous that
the people of the Midway district
should be obliged, as it We're, to sleep
on their arms. They are. practically in
a state of siege by the projectors of the
so-called Midway amusement park,
which is a plan to create a sort of
Coney Island somewhere in the district
between the two cities We have never
known a more impudent assault upon
the comfort and the property rights of
quiet, unoffending people. That they
should .have to say a word or lift a
finger in their own defense, that there
should be the slightest possibility Of
success for this miserable attack upon
their rights and their happiness is in
conceivable.
The city council would do well to
pass a formal resolution putting its
members definitely on record against
any project of this kind for all time to
come At least three times now the
promoters have come up, each time
with different scheme. but all of them
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13
A PEssfMIsTIc VIEW.

The statement of President Hopkins,
of Williams college, that crime is on
the increase and that the foundations of
national life are seriously threatened, is,
at first glance, a convincing one. Ger
tainly stories of crime continue to fill
at least one half the space in the daily
papers, and the magazines as well as
the papers devote many pages to ex-
posures of corruption in public life.
But it is difficult for any one living to-
day to state positively that the period
he represents is less moral than the
one which preceded it, 1t must be re-
membered that within the last fifty
years the peoples of the earth have
been drawn very closely together.
Those dwelling On other continents
have become practically our next door
neighbers and we know as much about
their affairs as about those of the peo-
pie who actually live across the street
Has not Prof. Hopkins mistaken an in
crease in publicity fer an increase in
crime and corruption?
He makes the assertion that the
foundations of personal character in
our national life are threatened. 1t Is
difficult to believe this when one looks
about ones city and sees that the men
and women who may be said to rep
resent it, the middle class people, are
individuals Of ideals and that their
conduct is actually Influenced by those
ideals. 1t is difficult to believe it, too,
when one regards the character Of men
in public life, men who hold positions
of trust. The highest positions are
held by men of incorruptible honesty.
1t is no eXaggeration to say that no
man whose morality was questioned
could today be elected to an important
office in this country. There are states
governed by corrupt men, to be sure,
but they keep we'll behind the guber-
ieeeOiieAi Slie111 anu lItSy al CdiSIul al
ways to make as good an appearance
as possible before the public. And
these states, moreover, are in the mi
nority.
Prosperity offers the best test of
nations character. The United States
is meeting that test now. 1t is too
soon to say she has failed just as it is
too soon to say she has succeeded.
The present period is barely beyond
transitional one. Perhaps it is not I'm
wise for man in President Hopkins
position to sound a warning. Self-sat-
isfaction is always fatal and this nation
certainly cannot afford to assume such
an attitude, for she has many and seri-
Gus faults. But occasionally it seems
that it has become the fashion to in
dulge IN pessimistic utterances and
especially for college professors to do
so. Students are apt to take the tone
of their teachers. It would not be at
all surprising if many of the orators
and essayists at the June commence
ment exercises took for their subjects
the pessimistic query What's the
Use?''