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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04

kindred of Scion, A-istides, Demosthenes,
and Pericles; of whom Plutarch relates that
he was never seen on but one street
and that was the one leading from his house
to the capitol? No; Greece viii receive no
part Of Turkey, but must remain as now.
until the spirit Of freedom shall lead her
scattered children forth and uncreate long
accustomed bondage. The memory of her
grand. heroic age must be revived to ayenge
the long series of Turkish wrongs. Riots
and revolution can not efface the mournful
page of slavery, nor the degeneracy of more
recent times But
when riseth Lacedaemon's hardwood
When Thebes Epaminondias rears again.
When Athens children are with hearts endued
When Grecian mothers shall give birth to men
Then mayest Greece be restored; but not til
&l,n,, 4.s s x
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04

TIE morning goldite representative OBJ
serves, "that the first effect of the silver bill
is the arrival from Europe of a ship load Of
U. s. bonds" Why not tell the whole truth? ?
The same ship, the Abysinja, brought over
about So, 100000 in bonds and $1O,000,0o0
in gold. What have you to say to that?
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04

Tue demurrers to the indictments of the
grand jury having been sustained by the
three District Judges, the question arises,
did Democratic frauds elect a Republican
Sheriff, Clerk, County Attorney. Senator and
three members of the Legislature last fall?
Pshawi
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04
EvERx day chat the fifteen wear Textbook

EVERY day that the fifteen year textbook
job is considered, the opposition to it in
creases. In fact, the extent of the monopoly
and the danger of the law, and tue host of
valid objections are just beginning to be
understood bv the public. It is very evident
that the people do not want this law forced
upon them, and nothing less than making it
optional with each district to accept or re-
ject the law will give satisfaction.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04
The State must Suffer.
re, ~, nv. =

Secretary of State lrgens, has appointed
j. P. jacobson, of Swift county, assistant
Secretary of State. The person holding this
appointment is also by virtue of the statutes
Commissioner of Statistics, very important
Office. The qualifications of jacobson for
this position are as yet unknown, and the
neglect to retain the efficient T. M. Metcalf
is owing, no doubt, to the clamor Of nation
atty, for which the State may suffer,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04

st. Cloud Journal-Press
The people of the United States have lived
for nearly fifteen years under the most absolute
despotism the world ever saw.-St. Paul Globe.
The GLOBE has scarcely reader SO igno-
rant but knows that this is nonsense, and
knows that in the Republic of France, for
instance, Hall would be permitted to pub
fish The GLOBE for just about one day. It
cannot be much of a despotism where any
man has full liberty to abuse the govern
ment to his hearts content.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04
4 Fifteen. Year Monopoly.
HASTINGS Gazette. 4

The school book bill adopted at the last
session Of the State Legislature has proved
so defective that its best friends are sorely
puzzled as to the necessary legislation requi-
site to perpetuate monopoly for the next
fifteen years. Why not let each district buy
it's own books at wholesale in the general
market, and not attempt to enrich an indi-
vidual for merely acting as go-between for
the State and Eastern publishers?
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04
THE WEEKLY GLOBE.

The WEEKLY GLOBE is mammoth sheet, exactly
double the size of the Daily. 1t is just the paper
for the resde containing in addition to all the current
news choice miscellany agricultural matter market
reports, &C. 1t is furnished to single subscribers at
$1.5O per year. Clubs of five address to per-
on) for S1.15 each.
Postage prepaid by the publisher on all editions.
AL mail subscriptions payable invariably in advance.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04

d REV. Mr.. Ten Brock, of st. Paul, fig
ures out of his doctrine OF theology, two
heavens and two hells, namely, Paradise"
and "Heaven" proper, and the ''Bottomless
Pit" and "Hell'' proper. Give us a rest
one of each kind is quite sufficient 'partic-
ularly" hell.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04
COMMISSIONERS OF STATISTICS.
IrDens' Unfortunate AppointD.ent--Gire I
an IndeDendent Rureau
Red Wing Republican.

an Independent Bureau.
Red Wing Republican.
The Assistant Secretary is ex-oficio Com
missioner of Statistics, and, excepting that
he must represent the Secretary when he
happens to be temporarily absent, his duties
are almost wholly connected with the bureau
of statistics. AS these are the chief duties
of the Office, the officer should be selected
for his qualif to discharge them. He
should have the highest appreciation of the
value of statistics. He should comprehend
on what matter detailed statistical informa-
ton is desirable. He should have ingenuity
to devise means to obtain voluntary returns
of such matters where the law fails to re-
quire them, and tact to get prompt and ac-
curate returns from the officer requilsd by
law to make them. Finally, he should have
that conscientious and, if you please, pro-
sale accuracy that will content itself with
the fact as shown by the returns. without adj
ditions or notifications.
But Mr.. Egens has thought best to try an
experiment. Having the opportunity to ap-
point either Mr.. Solberg, the most expert
enced, and. on the whole, the best commits
sioner, or Mr.. Metcalf who perhaps would
make better, he has appointed new anc
inexperienced man.
1 Mr.. jacobson is represented as young
man of good intelligence and education. HI
may make good officer. But if Mr.. Irgen
had consulted the public service solely, W.
believe he would not have experimental
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04
Why Don't They 1l,.s,cer.

The daily st. Paul GLOBE of the 26th, con
tains lengthy article upon the detriment
the Merrill law will produce if allowed to go
in force. If the great and majestic support
ers of that unwise law can honestly answer
the objections, we would like to hear from
them
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04
THE s.lLlRY or DISTRICT JUDGE

THE S.ILlRY OF DISTRICT JUDGE.
Almost at every session of the Legislature
additional work has been imposed on the
District Judges. This is especially true in
Ramsey county, and we believe i'll every
Judicial District. Here they have to super
intend, in connection, we believe, with the
County Assessor @ the drawing of jurors!
Already, at this session, several bills have
been introduced calling into requisition the
hard worked District Judges. One of these
bills, namely for the appointment of PRO
bate Commissioner we have taken occasion
to show unconstitutional, and the proposed
plan to have the Supreme and District Judges
revise the constitution is simply ridiculous
nonsense. In neither case would the District
Judges act-Lecause they know better the
law.
The point is this: The District Judges
have more work to do, and receive less pay,
in proportion to the qualifications and learn
ing required, than any officers in the State.
No lawyer in full practice can afford to be a
Judge. Perhaps this is best, for the ablest
judges of law are not always in full practice,
and the methods of thought aud study of
the advocate sometimes incapacitate for
judicial qualities. Be this as it
may, no lawyer with practice can afford to
be a judge on a salary of $4,000 year and
come out of Office, at the end of seven years,
with all former practice lost, and pauper.
toll 1n11 IF no IL,
port the judges family, and for many of
them the amount is insufficient bringing
them into debt. United States judges hold
their offices for life and are retired on pen
sion. So it is in England. The judges
should be paid a salary sufficient, to keeI
them out of debt, and to make them indie
pendent, and to enable them to lay up some
thing for their wives and children Look al
the salaries paid to English judges, and te
judges all over the world, except alone ii
the United States, where alone too the theor,
is that the Judiciary should be indie
pendent of all other departments of govern
ment.
A year or two ago the salary of the Su
! Pfelne couft JuaSeS was increased and yer,
justly. Every reason for that increase ex
lists with ten-fold intensity in the case of tn
district judges who have twice the work t
do and are crowded from day to da,
during the whole year with general an,
special terms, with motions and wit
extra work. Under these circumstances an
for these incontrovertible reasons, the Legis
lature would not only be doing wise, but
just act, in increasing the salary of the Dis
trict Judges, to at least $500 year. Tn
measure would be approved by the legs
profession, and what is more important, b
the people of the State, for the people pa,
and the people are the electors of Judges
and interested in their welfare, and in Law
yers only as part of the people.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04

The Philadelphia Times story of one
Schrack dying of consumption and coming
to life perfectly restored, is tough one.
Schrack must have been-wel, slack say
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04
SPEECH MAKING IN CONGRESS

The American people are addicted to
speech making. 1t is a national character
istic, especially feature of partisan politics.
Every man and almost every boy, before be
is out of his teens, considers himself natu-
raj orator. The opinion is very seldom
shared by others, but when it once possesses
one, it is apt to stick during life. This
would be rather harmless, if the matter
rested here. It does not rest here. The
business, on broader arena, becomes ex-
pensive and national bore.
Unfortunately the American people are
not speech-reading people. Speech-mak-
ing grew out of the custom of stump cam
paigning, before the day of newspapers.
Now every public question is thoroughly
discussed; with all the arguments on either
side, In the newspapers. The people read
| newspapers. Before the oratorical display
commences in Congress, they are about as
well informed perhaps more so-than the
average Congressman himself. The aver
age Congressman would not, as general
rule, be mistaken either for Scion or Cicero.
The people, having already been informed
on all subjects through the omnipotent re-
sources of the public press, the speech-mak-
ing in Congress is bore and heavy tax.
Very few people read Congressional
speeches. Very few speeches are worth read
ing. But fewer people hear them delivered.
They are usually spoken to emp
ty seats. What cares the average
Congressman for that? An orator pounding
away in the House of Representatives, with
only one member I'M his seat after an hour
OF two of bloviation, was thus interrupted by
the Speaker: .sThe Chair would suggest tc
the gentleman the propriety Of suspendinG
his remarks at this point, as there seems te
be no quorum present. He replied: ''Mr
Speaker, it matters not, sir; it matters not
sir. speak to future generations The
, solitary member. John Randolph, piped GU
III his sharp tenor voice: s'Let him proceed
Mr.. Speaker, they will soon be here
3 AS an amusement, no one objects to thi
constant Congressional oratory. But it i
: altogether pleasure too expensive. It de
f lays legislation and keeps the country in
1 constant state of excitement, the finance
e uncertain, business depressed and disorgan
t lied, confidence withheld, and chaos genel
ally. For example. Board of town super
visors would now decide the silver questio
% in fifteen minutes. Let us have rest fro1
Congressional speech-making. Let legisls
Q ton proceed, and the people know if the
are to be saved or ruined.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04
CONSTITUTIONAL CONTEMPORARIES
EXPENSE.

Hon. E. NJ. Wilson, in his letter to TIE
GLOBE, objects to the expense, and wants to
know the necessity of a constitutional con-
vention. Mr. Wilson himself answers his
own question. He says ''seven amendments
were submitted last year, and well decided"
Now with all due Difference, we
submit that an instrument or organic
law that requires seven distinct amend
ments, in one year, is somewhat defective
and needs revision. Mr.. Wilson
says also, "that the only argument he has
heard advanced is, that it has been long
this must prpceed on the theory that con-
stitution is piece of machinery that wears
out with use, and needs to be tinkered every
year, and so on. The experience in Mime
sofa would justify the s'theory," because,
with scarcely single exception, the tinker
ing business has been attempted every
year, and only last year seven
separate and distinct tinkerings were
accomplished. It has been tinkered and
patched and .sdarned,'' as we have said be-
fore, until you cannot tell the original gar
ment from the patches. New cloth has been
plastered on threadbare clothing, and the
rent has been made larger.
Mr. Wilson's chief objection seems to be
the expense. We candidly admit it's force
But it must be remembered that two or three
years would elapse before tie work of the
Convention would be accomplished
including the subsequent revision of the
statutes. The expense becomes an incon
siderable item, compared with persistence
in tinkering, in trying to sew up the seams
, and patch the holes, and piling up genera
and special laws al snfnitum conforming t.
muddled, mixed, unintelligble, and invent.
years tinkered constitution. We can't argu
about the expense in the presence of publ
necessity.
There is necessity for chang
and revision in every depart
ment. The executive department need
REQ rganization-so that important positions
in that department, cannot be vacated with
tionality for political reasons. The judiciar
department needs revision re-districting tn
t State, fixing the number of judges, and tax
ing it out of the power of the Legislature
t create courts and of the executive to appoir
temporary judges. The number of suprem
judges should be increased and other change
. made, the Jurisdiction of probate courts Ell
8 larged, SO as to relieve district courts an
: probate courts made courts. OF abolished a
together.
q The caro- and protection Of public fund
a the law of taxation of township organization
of corporations. and of restrictions on Il
n amount of public debt, limitations Oh al
d preparations in any one given class of legisl
/? ton, these and many other subjects requi
revision. The constitution as it stands col
sists of amendments. We have had con
: pilation Of the laws Q855), the revision
o 1866, now let us have a convention. al
= subsequent revision of the statutes, and ,
IS may go on for thirty years longer witho
= any tinkering,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04

Mrs. MARCY, the wife of Gen. r. B. Marcy,
who formerly resided at St. Paul, and will
be remembered by many, died in Baltimore
on January 20. Mrs. Marcy was the mother
of Mrs. Gen. Mcclellan.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04

CONSIDERING the great success of August
Belmont as Chairman of the National DEM
ocratic Committee few years ago. it is about
time August should subside.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04
THE SUNDAY GLOBE.

The GLOBE will be furnished every day in the
week to CITY subscribers at IS cents month $40
per year.
Nv mail the SUNDAY GLOBE will be one dollar per
YEAR in addition to the rate given above for mail
subscribers.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04

CONGRESS proposes to stop the coinage of
twenty cent pieces. That is right, they are
a fraud.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04

THE aged Lord only wanted his declining
years soothed by the charming widow Hicks.
Hlc-c0Nlh, SIC, 0 Lord.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04
4 Change Demanded.
IA

The recent change in the Office of assistant
secretary of state has attracted public atten-
ton to the fact that either the duties and re-
sponsibilities of commissioner Of statistics
should be vested with the secretary himself,
or else turned over to separate department
and the appointment made in the usual way
by the governor and confirmed by the senate.
1t is clearly evident that the position is too
important to be trusted to the exigences OF
modern politics, and a change is imperatively
demanded
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04

AUGUST BELMONT having used the Demo-
cratic party for years to advance the interests
of the Rothschilds Whose American agent
he ISL now seeks to assail and destroy the
party, which has become too strong to be
his tool. He stood for years at the head of
the Democratic National Committee, and
constantly sought to so shape the action of
the Democracy as to secure the success of
the Republicans. The Republican party was
committed to the building up of a money
oligarchy, and hence Belmont, though stand
ing as the foremost representative of the
Democratic party, desired the success of the
party which he was nominally opposing
We are glad to know that his career for evil
in the Democratic party is at an end.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04
The School Book Outrage.

A bill has been introduced by Senator
Hall to make the school book outrage oper-
alive, and elsewhere in this issue, the bill
will be found in full, with pertinent editorial
remarks from the editor of the DAILY GLOBE.
1t is quite as well that our Legislators ex-
anime into this matter pretty thoroughly be-
fore they get the State into the proposed fiji
teen years scrape, under the demagogical
cry of cheap text books. Text books bought
under the form proposed, will prove to be
like old Mrs. Toodles' investments in door
and coffin plates.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04
The Opposition.
list. Cloud Journal-Press. !

st. Cloud Journal-Press.]
The Minneapolis Tribune of Tuesday con-
tains lengthy and able article in opposi-
ton to the text book law. 1t will now be in
order for the St. Paul Dispatch to rise right
up on its hind legs and charge that .:virtu-
ally all the clamor against the Merrill text
book bill comes from the newspapers at
Winona, Mankato and st. Cloud-the seats
of the Normal schools
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04

JUDGE EMMETr's letter in Saturday 8
GLOBE undoubtedly touches the main point
as to the present law Of mortgage foreclos-
ure, that it is the enormous expense and rob-
berry of the debtor. Do away with all the
exactions of fees, costs, attorneys bills,
interest penalties, and SO on, and the object
would be accomplished. The objection does
not seem to be to the proceedings in court
or principle, but to the expense and down
right robbery of the present law. The peo-
pie are generally, and we believe for this
reason, in favor Of the restoration of the
former method of advertisement. If Mr.
Emmett has any better and less expensive
plan we hope he will embody it in a bill, and
have it submitted to the Legislature for con
sideration.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04
THE TEXT BOOK. JOB
OPPOSITION BECOMING GENERA.
What Prominent Educator Says--The
Books Very Poor and Imperfect--An I'm
answerable Summing Up--The Law an
Outrage--A Fifteen Year Monopoly.
WA0t One OF the Best Educators Says.

Whdt One Of the Best Educators Says.
lWinnebago City Press.
The school book law has been cussed and
discussed SO much that we, like most others,
have become tired of it. but here is an
item which we find in the Preston Repub
tsc0n. from the pen of the Rev. D. T.. Kiehle,
one of the best educators in the State, and a
man whom we personally know to be in
capable of saying that which he did not
honestly believe to be true, which we feel
like laying before our readers. He says:
"Permit me to say that have watched
the development of the text book scheme
with anxiety as matter of vital importance
to the schools. AS to the plan of purchase,
/ have nothing to say. Those who represent
the buyers and the tax payers will have that
to consider. But as teacher. pledged tc
the improvement of our system, see moth.
ing but mischief threatening. The selection
of books thus far justifes all our fears.
regard your estimate of the books as mos
just. Some of the series are good enough
but the important books, the arithmetic.
and the grammars are particularly unaccept
able. If we are forced to make them thu
basis of our instruction, then all that hal
been gained in the discussion and x;erienc,
of teachers for the last ten years. is lost t.
| Minnesota
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04
Hell Summed Up.

LIE Sueur Sentinel.
The inutility of the school textbook law,
which is now under discussion in the Leg
islature, some of the defects of which it is
now proposed to remedy by amendment, are
we'll summed up in the following from the
St. Paul DAILY GLOBE:
First-To compel district clerks to make
estimates.
Second-Io compel County Superintendent
to make acquisitions upon the State Superin-
tendent.
Third-To compel the State Superintend-
ent to make acquisitions upon rhe contrac-
tor for books, and transmit the same to
County Auditors.
Fourth-To compel County Auditors to
transmit the books to the several school dis
| tricts of his county.
Fifth-To compel the State Treasurer tc
pay for the books as soon as delivered by the
contractor.
Sixth-To compel County Treasurers t.
pay the State Treasurer tout of any money,
belonging or payable to school districts
arising from taxation then in his hands O
which thereafter may come to his hands,
Seyenth-To compel district clerks TO re
ceive and sell the books, and turn over tn
money under penalty of fine and imprison
ment.
| Eighth-Last and more than all, to com
pei the people to use the books for fifteel
| wears
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04

ST. PAUL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1878.