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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
A BLOW TO THE JluJITsu

One Arata Suzuki of Japan, exponent
of the chrysanthemum Kingdoms wide
ly advertised method of self-defense.
was thrown twice in five minutes by
st. Louis gentleman who relied solely
on muscle for accomplishing the slant
eyed ones overthrow. Whatever else
jiujitsu pretended to be. everybody
was perfectly sure that it was invin-
chile. When it first began to be talked
about little men threw out their chests
and gazed superciliously upon the
brawny giants who for so many CEN
turtles have occupied the center of the
fistic arena in this country
But the St. Louis incident proves
that the jiujitsu doesn't always jitsu.
so it is probable that the brawny
giants will continue to practice solar
plexus blows. OF course the japanese
method of getting the better of the
other fellow will not lose all its popu-
larity because of the defeat of Arata
Suzuki. So long as the little brown
men continue to whip the Russes, ev-
erything Japanese is bound to continue
In vogue here. Moreover, although it
has been demonstrated that jiujitsu is
not infallible in the ring, Mr.. Suzuki's
overthrow has not demonstrated that
1T must always be fallible outside the
ring. If the exponent of the method
Is able to take his opponent unawares,
he seems to stand a very good chance
of overcoming him.
Even those Americans who are for
Russia in the present war will prob
ably regret that jiujitsu is not as eff
cacious as its advocates have repre-
scented it to be. 1t is, at least, neat
and refined-something that cannot be
said of the method of self-defense
adopted by Sullivan, Corbett ct al. 1t
was heralded here as demonstrating
the triumph of mind over matter, for
1t is science against brute force. Per-
haps it will be discovered that Arata
Suzuki is not a fair exponent of it.
Certainly if this should happen, not the
little men alone but all classes, with
the possible exception of the pugilists,
will rejoice.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
TODAY'S WEATHER

WASHINGTON. March 21.-Forecast
Tor "Wednesday and Thursday:
Enthusiastically cloudy and warmer
Wednesday. rain or snow in northeast por-
ton; Thursday partly cloudy, colder in
west portion. increasing Southerly winds
becoming northwesterly by Thursday.
Upper Michigan-Cloudy Wednesday
rain or snow in west portion. warmer in
south portion: Thursday rain, increasing
southeast to south winds.
Montana-Fair Wednesday. except rain
or snow in northwest portion; Thursday
fair.
North Dakota-Fair Wednesday, colder
in west portion and at night in east por-
ton; Thursday fair
South Dakota-Partly cloudy WedneS-
dayS colder in west portion and at night in
east portion; Thursday fair.
Wisconsin-Partly cloudy Wednesday.
warmer In west and central portions:
Thursday showers and warmer in east
portion. fair in west, increasing south
east to south winds
Iowa-Partly cloudy "Wednesday. warm
er in central and east portions: Thursday
fair. colder in north and west portions.
st. Paul-Observations taken yesterday
by the United States weather bureau,
w. r. Oliver. observer, for the twenty
four hours ended at O'clock last night
barometer corrected for temperature and
elevatiOn): Barometer, 5000; relative
humidity. So; weather, cloudy: maximum
temperature, So; minimum temperature.
%; daily range, s: mean temperature, IS:
p. m. temperature, IS; wind at p. m,
south; precipitation, trace.
Yesterdays temperature at other points:
HAw.w.. ~ -
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
WEDNESDAY, MARCH %, 1905
AN INVITED KICK

We must at least give the street rail-
way company credit for making no eff
fort to conceal it's contempt for st.
Paul. 1t has no reason to fear us, and
it makes no pretense of doing so. Hav-
ing found this city the easiest mark
that it ever tackled, it proceeds at the
earliest opportunity to administer a
good solid kick where it will be felt
most.
All the street railway company's in
terests lie in Minneapolis, and all its
efforts have been and still are given
to building up the industries and in
creasing the business Of that city at
the expense of st. Paul. 1t has been
a great grief to the street railway COM
pany that all the trade relations of
Fort Smelling have been from the ear
Hest times with St Paul instead of with
Minneapolis. 1t has been the purpose
of the company to turn that business
to Minneapolis as soon as the thing
could be done. 1t has seized the first
opportunity.
All the preparations of the company
were made some time ago to build its
line into Fort Smelling. These were
held up temporarily because at that
time tie company did not know just
what an easy job it would have in
bossing st. Paul. 1t did not show its
hand for. fear there would be some in
reference with its St Paul pro-
gramme. 1t even went SO far as to
hint through its representative to our
business men that they would better
get a move on and build a bridge
across the Mississippi before the line
from Minneapolis was completed. A
bill to bond st. Paul for the cost of the
bridge is now before the legislature.
All this was mere preliminary Skin
mishing. The street railway company
never had an idea of relinquishing its
project to turn over the Fort Smelling
business to Minneapolis Having
bagged the st. Paul authorities and
seen them jump with alacrity into its
livery and doff their caps to it's agents,
the company now proposes to complete
the line from Minneapolis to Fort
Smelling instanter. 1t will be done be-
fore the mere preliminaries of building
bridge SO as to get the line through
from st. Paul are arranged 1t is
vicious but not unnatural expression of
the contempt that the company feels
for an adversary so weak and serv-
lie. They who sign away all their
rights without SO much as protest
are legitimate mark for their master
whenever he wants to vent his spleen.
The present policy of the street rail-
way company is the logical and legiti-
mate sequence Of it's dealings with St
Paul. and our own supine and helpless
attitude.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
South American Fears

Nobody in the United States will find
any tauit with a union of the Central
ana South American countries against
outside aggression. Such union
would relieve the United States of the
role OF defender for those nations
against Europe. We have had to go
TO the Latin American countries de-
Iense more than once. The role of
packer for those nations against the
world Is rather costly to us. and is
sometimes embarrassing. II they show
the power and the disposition to help
themselves we shall be gratified. There
Is very strong suspicion in this coun-
Try that the mutterings in Central and
South America against the United
states which are occasionally heard
are incited by our jealous rivals on
the other side OF the Atlantic.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22

accept graft wheK he was paid only
500 year for his services would re-
fuse it if his portion were ten times
as much?
In our judgment the whole theory is
preposterous and wrong. In the last
analysis man must be honest for his
own sake, or his honesty is not worth
an instant's purchase. We have not
observed as a general rule that scru-
pulousness about engaging in doubtful
financial transactions increases in di-
rect ratio to the increase of wealth
Rich or poor, it all depends on the man.
If his own self-respect is to him
princely possession, then neither dol
lar nor a thousand dollars can pur-
chase it. If not, then it is a matter of
the volume and pressure of temptation.
There are other and practical rea-
sons why the salary of members of
city council should be larger, just as
there are equally valid reasons why
they should not be fixed at all by leg
islative act 1t is always difficult to
get the consent of able and reliable
men to serve as aldermen or assembly,
men. They do not expect or want
princely remuneration, but they are
entitled to some pay for the actual
time given, and 500 a year is a pre-
posterous sum. 1t would be better to
make the office altogether unsalaried
than to give it this poor pretense of
pay. On the other hand, it is equally
certain that If the salary were raised
to $4,000 it would merely intensity the
struggle for such a juicy plum among
the unfit and the unworthy.
Wherever the golden mean may lie,
it is certain that the problem should be
worked out by each local community
for itself. The legislature should have
nothing whatever to do with it, and
it has to do with other municipal mat
tiers. Fancy the congress Of the United
States passing a law to fix the COM
pensation of members of the state leg
islature! Yet the principle would be
exactly the same, and the practice no
more unreasonable than having the
salary of councilmen fixed by a leg
islature. Let every tub stand on its
own bottom, and each community de-
termine this matter at it's own peril
and by its own experience.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
A VICIOUS MEASURE

BY no stretch of courtesy or imagi-
nation can the measure recommended
by the roads and bridges committees of
the two houses of the legislature be
called a good roads bill" 1t really
has little or nothing to do with the
subject. 1t is on par, rather, with
the bounty bills and other small jobs
that make their way into our statutes.
1t is conceived in jealousy and selfish
ness, and born into the world as a
measure to squander a large amount of
public property unprofitably. An i'm
partial opinion would declare that.
upon the whole, it must probably do
more harm than good to the cause of
good roads that is made the pretense
for it's existence.
The bill has two main purposes. One
is to provide several places for ap-
pointees, and the other is to turn over
to county authorities certain sums of
the authority of the state, to be dis
tributed for political purposes. The
states highways are likely to get about
as much benefit out of this as they do
now from our abominable method of
county repairs. The only redeeming
feature of the bill is that it authorizes
the appointment of secretary who
shall be a civil engineer and practical
road builder. What abilities he is
likely to possess we can guess from
the princely salary of $500 assigned
to his position. We may also compare
this compensation with the total ap-
preparation of $4,000 made for the
maintenance of the board.
The utterly vicious principle, how
ever, and the one which makes it sure
in advance that we shall get not even
a beginning of good roads, is that
which provides that from the fund col
lected by one-twentieth of a mill tax
on the property of the state not more
than per cent and not less than one
half of 1 per cent shall be. assigned to
any one county in any one year. Now
the first fact about good road construc-
ton is that it requires the concentra-
ton of effort and of funds. Good roads
are costly to build, but easy to repair
and they last forever. 1t is clear that
where from $4,000 per mile to twice
that sum must be used in construction,
you cannot spread a fund all over a
state and get anything except the
cheap patchwork that our roads now
represent.
The jealousies of the counties and
the idea that road fund is a grab
bag into which every hand is entitled
to plunge are responsible for this fatal
condition. 1t would have been lust as
sensible when the appropriation was
made for the new capitol building to
provide that, IN constructing 1t, the
money must be spent pro rata accord
ing to population in all the different
counties of the state. 1t is a thousand
pities that after all the effort taken to
educate public opinion in this state In
the matter of good roads we should
get bill so much worse than nothing.
1t provides merely for the certain
waste of a specified sum in taxes. and
the constitution of one more SUPER
fluous political machine in the shape of
a state board.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
Forfeit Public SYnnnathX

1t is not too much to say that men
operating transportation service.
upon which more than a million per-
sons are dependent, who hold up" the
employing company with an ultimatum
to be accepted or rejected in seven
hours, and then in the middle of the
night order a strike going into effect
before daylight, show a spirit which
ought to deprive them of all public
sympathy and exhibit themselves as
not to be depended on in an employ
ment which peculiarly demands faith
fulness.-New York Times.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
Missouri Criticism Of Garfield

The general public will strongly sus-
pect that Commissioner Garfield has
Deen bunkoed by the trust magnates.
Neither the president nor the attor-
ney general will be likely to accept
this story that the packers are work.
Ing for the niggardly profits which
Garfield gives them. or that they are
innocent of all completely in attempts
10 violate the antitrust law. The
trials OF the packers before the United
States courts which are just ahead OF
us will be awaited with great interest
by the American people.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
LETTERS FROM THEPEOPL
Or. Pope Defends His Church Against
Attacks of Contemporary

To the Editor of The Globe:
The attitude of the Episcopal church is
defensive, not offensive She mas enemies
to the right and enemies to the left Not
long ago. when she was attacked from the
one side. my defense was kindly allowed
by the secular press. Will you grant me
the same favor now that the assault is
from the opposite direction?
On Feb. 1 wrote to one of the daily
papers in this city as follows:
"Tne Talbot case IS ended. 1t ought to
have been called the Irvine case The
parties to the suit were on the one side
a bishop. who for seventeen years had ex-
ercised his office without reproacn, on the
other a person with the opposite reputa-
ton.
DIR. Irvine has been seeking revenge
for years. The ecclesiastical courts be-
fore which he mas appeared have been
composed OF men of highest standing; in
the last instance of bishops and such lay
men as Francis Lynde StetsOn. New York
counsel for the Great Northern railway.
Bishop Talbot has remained silent; the
public press has been tuned by Irvine,
and mis- prospective doings. a la Kuropat-
kin, have had in morning paper the
most conspicuous positions.
DIR. Irvine's last move was to say he
was going to take his case into the civil
courts. That was bluff and accordingly
this morning paper announces that he has
withdrawn his suit TIE announcement
the previous scandal did, but beneath the
advertisement of Prices baking powder
This is piece of yellow journalism"
This defense was not published but
the same newspaper that sided with DR.
Irvine against Bishop Talbot this morning
shows its luminosity against the Church
of England in an editorial of nearly a col
umn entitled Religious Persecution in
England
The gist of the article is that I'm Wales
they are refusing to pay church rates,
which is much the same as mortgage in
tereSt. In both cases the crown enforces
the law. which in the present instance
the editor of the newspaper referred to
terms persecution.
The Church of England existed as q
body polite in England centuries before
the reformation. and was endowed by pri-
vate parties The form of the endow-
ment was not in bonds aud stocks. but i'm
the form of mortgage on the land.
Church rates are not the property of the
state. When the chancellor of the ex-
chequer makes out his annual budget of
government expenses nothing is said about
the church. which is supported out of it's
own funds. Property is bought and sold
subject to church rates. To talk OF OBJ
jecting to pay church rates on account of
religious scruples Is as If man should
decline to pay the interest or his
mortgage note for the same reason.
William c. Pope
St. Paul, sIarch q.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
Strike Leader Leaves Riotous Meeting

NEW YORK, March 21-A meeting
including many socialists, which was
announced to be the second joint
meeting of the strikers of the Amalga-
mated Association of Street Railway
and Electric Companies and Engi-
neers," ended in riotous scenes today
George +. Pepper, the strike leader
and head of the charterless local branch
of the amalgamated. Is credited with
having broken up the meeting. Pep
per denounced the methods he said
were approved by the meeting, viz, the
use of bombs and dynamite as weapons
of modern civilization. Order was re-
stored by the police. Pepper leaving the
hall and taking a large delegation with
him.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
PERSONAL MENTION

Ryan-W. II. Wilson, Toronto: w. w.
Mcdowell. Butte; ]. L. Rocheleau. Little
Falls; p. J. Palmer and ID. d. Palmer.
Davenport. A NJ. Chisholm, c. NJ. Knode
and L. c. Little. Duluth
Merchants-Thomas Bailey. Bemidji;
Joseph Zalmer, Lismore: NJ. ]. Kolb. Bag
ley; Nj. f. Hegge Hatton. n. D.: 7. J.
McNally, New Richmond; MIR. and Mrs. l.
Hosmer. Lake Wilson; c. Z. buchanan.
Little Falls; Bliss Anderson. Mason City,
Ia: William Stems. Swanville; George
Hall. West Concord; Z. B. Banks. Duluth;
A c. Snyder, Winnipeg: Arson Northrup
and I. J. Smith. Red Oak. Ia; A. N. JEFF
fries. Dickinson. n. D.: Mr.. and Mrs
George Turner. Spokane.
Windsor-Paul F. Dehnel. Chsska; Mr.
Wedge, Larimore. n. D.: Mr. and Mrs
Arthur K. Hanchett. Big Rapids. Mich.
III. Byrne, Morris; III. John Oliver. Theolin
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
SALARIES AND HONESTY

member of the legislature express
ed rather crudely an opinion generally
held and often heard when he said: 81
hear great howl on the streets that
our aldermen are really not honest. 1
say give them $1,000 a year and then
they viii be square" This raises the
plain issue whether man who would
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
Bureaucracy in the Navy

The present organization OF the navy
department and the methods of carry
ing out work are severely criticised on
all sides, and officers connected with
the department and with the various
navy yards have stated that with the
enormous increase of work the present
system is becoming intolerable and I'M
less much needed reforms are instituted
in the near future there will be such
serious embarrassment as will almost
bring work to a standstill.-Baltimore
Sun.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
Start an Insurance Company

SDeclaI TO The Globe
PIERRE. S. D., March 21.-President
George Schlosser and General Manager
Joseph Frudenfeldt of the Queen City Fire
insurance company of Sioux Falls were in
this city today to secure a charter for
their company. They brought for deposit
with the insurance commissioner drafts
and securities to the amount of $3.50 600,
which Is so per cent of their capital stock
as required, all of the securities being
bonds or first mortgages on property in
South Dakota. Their charter was granted
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
The CUSTOMARY Solution

why do You have so many rattle
snakes in your village?" asked the visit
ing owl.
well" replied the prairie dog. I'VE
can't suppress the rattlesnake evil of
course. but we regulate it,"
How do you regulate it?"
Why. we let them settle down among
US wherever they choose. and then We
We ostracize them socially and keep out
OF their way."-Chicago Tribune.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
Pittshurn With an aHy

The Pennsylvania railroad has learned
that the legal name of one of its chief
tributary cities is Pittsburgh" and
has given orders to add the III to the
name when the road has occasion to
print it. On hotel registers the name
is usually written PTS" or "Ptsg."
There seems to be an opening here for
poet to point out that the drummer
writes no final ~" but he gets there
all the same, which is, after ALL the
chief function of the railroad.-Har-
ner'S Weekly
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
Among the Merrymakers
Settled the Dispute

James, cried Mrs. Timmid, there
are burglars downstairs"
''Oh. no. there amt. my DEAR" replied
Mr.. Timmid.
I'm sure there are
I'm sure there amt
81 tell you there are
81 tell you there amt"
Your husband is right. num-" inter-
posed a low browed individual who thrust
his head into the room at this juncture.
Were upstairs"
And as he started down he was heard
to say to his pal: Il always believe in
helping a husband out whenever 1 kin.
I'm a married man myself. "-PittsburG
Post
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
The Difference

Father said the small boy. what is |
the difference between a statesman and a |
Politician"
A statesman, my son, is the man who |
gives advice gratis. and the politician is |
the one who gets the situation."-wash- |
ington Star.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22

Miss Ida Tarbell has succeeded in
creating the impression that she doesn't
care whether Mr.. Rockefeller wants to
contribute to her dowry or not.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22

In recommending Mrs. Chadwick to
the mercy of the court, her counsel
ought to star old man Chadwick. 1t
will be hard on the old boy to have
to hustle for himself at his age.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
The Editors mIdwinter Jov

Hiram Wildes recently presented us
them while digging out water pipe and
knowing we had a use for them brought
them TO US. We expect to catch fish with
those worms.-Norway (Afe) Advertiser
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22

If Castro insists on making raid up
the Mississippi, and wants a hostage,
we earnestly recommend Gov. yarda-
man to his attention.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22

The common soldiers of the Russian
army in Manchuria are eating horse
which is, perhaps. a more agreeable
diet than the crow that is spread be-
fore their generals.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22

Perhaps it was concern ovep>the pos
sible defeat of the anti-cigarette bill.
involving a blow at the root of the
national life. that detained La Toilette
In the governors chair.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
No lime

You have quit complaining about the
price of meat"
Had to quit" answered the industrious
citizen. II am kept so busy hustling for
the price that / no longer have time to
complain. "-Washingto Star.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22

A New Jersey preacher gets four
years for trying to run off with one
Of his flock. And at that the evidence
was not conclusive as to whether he
designed an elopement or just wanted
an excuse to get out Of Jersey.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22
Not SYNONYMOUS

Kelly-Its mesilf is goIn' to Iade tn
simple life durin' Lint.
O'Brien-Not a dhrop viii ye touch, 1
suppose?
Kelly-Shure. phwat makes We think
that man can't be simple widout bein'
foolish PUCK
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22

Nelson o. Nelson of St. Louis saws
getting rich is merely bad habit. Mr..
Nelson is worth four millions and may
be said TO have his habits on.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22

That savant who gave 1T out that
gambling was recreation rather than
dissipation had probably been plunging
in beanbag tourney.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-22

The Novoe Vremya has spoken, and it
only remains for the Anoka Union to
butt in and the debate may be con-
sidered fairly opened.