The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-19
What the Editors Say

The st. Paul Globe is nightly
alarmed lest Congressman John Sharn
Wlilams and Editor William Jennings
6Iyan, together with the rest of the
Deilocratic leaders. will lead the party
IN a hGnt after strange gods. There ia
no doubt in our mind but what Sharn
Wlllams and Billy Bryan understand
as fully as h e G. / o b e. if not more
SO, the deplorable condition both i'm
muscle and brain, of the Democratic
party, and are adopting the only medi-
cine that can possibly save the now
weak and low patient from total COL
lapse. The result of the late presiden
tai contest would indicate that the
democratic party has either taken tn
the woods Or gone over in a body to the
republican party. tt e Globe is a
great paper. ably edited and widely cir
culated, and no doubt will do it's best to
lift again upon its feet the once grand
party of Jefferson and Jackson. The
nation needs two parties. strong both
In numbers and leaders, and we wish
L e q | b e success in the great and
worthy task that lies before it-Hous-
ton Signal.
There is one great obstacle in the
way of the reform element in the Re-
publican party, and that is the United
states senate. A large majority of it's
members were not sent there to do re-
form work of any kind, but rather to
stand in with the powers that made
them and dc the bidding of the mighty
trusts and corporations. If a dozen or
score of such men as Robert M. La
roulette. of Wisconsin, Could move on
the senate, there would be a rattline
among the dry bones that could be
heard around the earth. But La Fol-
lette and a few others like him win do
something as it is, and we really hone
our Moses Will see the handwriting on
the wall and get into the game with
the reformers.-Montevid Leader.
When seen in it's right light the tariff
is nothing more nor less than a Grim
NAL interference in restraint of trade"
1t is criminal because it is the means
by which the people are robbed for the
beneht of a few; it is in restraint of
trade, because it imposes upon the con-
sumner an arbitrary tax which prevents
hlm from purchasing in the market
where he can get the most for his
| money. Moreover it is a curse which
begets monOpolies and trusts and i'm
poYeriSheS and enslaVes the Masses
Anoka Free Press.
If the new state capitoTs size is in
proportion to the price the state paid
for 1T there should be no complaint as
to its smallness. Some people will do
business in little six by eight office
for years without murmur but the
minute they are elected to some public
office up goes a howl about the poor
accommodations furnished the public
servants.-Vesta Censor.
Kansas, noted for various reforms
has struck the keynote in this respect
when it took up the task of killing off
lobbying. The individual who has been
! in the habit of plying this nefarious vo-
cation in Kansas will be bounded out
| The great bread and butter state"
should be given the hunch.-Springfeld
| Advance.
Promoters are paying but little at
tention to the antitrust operations of
the federal department of justice. In
| the face of the operation against the
beef trust, the American ice company
has reorganiZed with a holding COM
pany." Now lets see whether the at
| torney general can thaw it out.-Duluth
| News Tribune.
The LAY" members of the legislature
are kicking because the lawyers are
| running things. There are only twenty
| three lawyers in the house ard three
| times as many other members. When
| majority confess a minority runs
| them they confess their own incom-
petency.-Sauk Center Herald.
| While speaking we are reminded
| that We have few bureaUcracies in
\ our own country - the United States
| senate for instance. Once in a while
we can assist man of the people to
break in-but often, oh, how often it is
otherwise.-Princeton Union.
If Tom Lawson continues to tumble
in public interest, at the accelerated
pace he has set of late, his magazine
| flapdoodle." He is ceasing to be inter-
| esting; the bulls and bears no longer
| bark his baiting.-Hudson Star Times.
! Joel Heatwole is squealing on Jim
| Tawney because of Tawney's interest
! III Alaska timber. Has Joel got it in
black and white?-Preston Repub
| lican.