Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-18
SWIZZLEUM.
Jane Gray Gires Her Minnesota Erpe-


Mrs. Swisshelm has gotten into contro-
versy with the Printers Union, and she gives
the Chicago Tribune a column snd half of
her Experience The following is her
Minnesota version:
moved to st. Cloud, Mimi, in 1857. and
found the wreck of the 44doe,5iser. which
had been done to death by paying Union
prices for labor. i started the st. Cloud
VISITOR, and got into quarrel with some
Democrats, who formed union for my sup
preston.
They visited my office at 2 O'Clock A. NJ,
March 4th, 1858, broke my press, put the
type into the Mississippi, and gave notice
that they would tie me to log and set me
afioat on the Father of Waters if ever again
attempted to publish a paper there. Decent
men were indignant, and formed printing
company to sustain me. They sent to Chicago
and bought press and type, men lay on their
arms for months to defend them and me,
and Republicans strained every nerve to
support paper. There were only two
printers in the place, both Unionists. 1t
was grasshopper year and financial
crisis. There was not a brick or garden
fence in the city. All our bread-stuffs were
imported, and to support paper was a
great strain on the little community. The
printers owned.property there, and were as
much interested in the growth of the place
as men who we're contributing to the Visi-
tor; but the rules of the union forbade their
working under rates. They had characters
to support, and could be gentlemen loafers,
but not undergrad laborers; and if the
Democracy had not crushed the Printing
company with ibel-suits, the printers
union would have killed it with wages.
The company retired; the paper was mine.
| discharged the printers and set about re-
calling what had learned years before in an
| hours tuition, took proof of my first
stick, found it read backwards, and dis
tributed it, had found out the secret, and
took two apprentices. One of them after
wards fell at Gettysburg, with his back to
the field and his feet to the foe-Lieut.
Miller, of the regular army; the other is
now editor and proprietor of the st.
Cloud Journal. These-my two boys
and l, all ignorant of the trade, set
! up what matter we could, took proofs
and corrected them,-I acting as instructor,
''boss printer while the two union printers
loafed, chuckled, and sneered, and tried to
alarm the men who had bought the type and
presented it to me, by confident predictions
of its speedy reduction to pi. "Greenhorns
might set up matter: but come to make up q
form and lock it! Ha! ha!''
Here we were, little community, in a
Wilderness surrounded by savages: half the
men bankrupt by real estate depre.
citation, crops all destroyed, starvation
staring us in the face; little party
of law and order contending for the
freedom of the press; the only church-goine
bell in half-a-dozen counties stuck up OF
four sticks, and rung by the Lady-Abbess O
a little community of nuns; all of us trying
to let the outside world know of the grea
natural advantages of the country that w
might draw immigrants to aid in overcom
ing savage beasts and men; and the onl,.
printers among us using the public DANCE
and necessity as screw by which they Nigh
squeeze Union wages out of their strugglin
neighbors.
Both men were good neighbors. when t,
be SO violated no claim of the Union; an
one of them was especially generous AM
wholesouled as man. It was only as
, Union printer that he was mean. 1t di
look as if they wonld have triumph. ha
never seen form made up; but my instrut
: tor of six years before had told me how
: was done, and explained the principles c
/ made up my first form and locked i
. Stephen Miller-afterwards General an
r Governor Miler-took it from the imposin
t stone to the press. 1t was solid as bricl
J. and he and the boys called in the neighbol
J. to hurrah. How Wesley Miller and ev,
= did master the mysteries of that Adam
y press, 1 cannot think now; but had talel
II for mechanics. and had studied ''natur
,; philosophy carefully for two whole da.
y when / was fourteen; he was quick, and '
s, made out to take a proof-when oh! o
Is oh! we found that all the columns read fro
=; right to left
- Tomorrow was to have been press da
III I transposed the form by lamp light, and ,
er got our paper off in good time l soon G
G; girls, and one of them came to be the be
ed typo in the state. We did not miss nul
o Der of our paper for the seven years l ow
Is ed and published it: and it is a hourishi
he institution now. So the printers union ia
~ ed to kill the second St. Cloud paper:
lis the action of its members proved the 81
h, pidity of such organizations. Here We
IT, these mes, aliens in the little community
n which they were part,--owing allegiance
u a combination of people with whom til
= had no interest in common, and standing
that allegiance at sacrifice of self resp
and the respect of their nelghbors.
t ONLY FIFTY DOLLARS.
l.
n Ho,c 1fcElcn Vas Arengcd Upon a Bta
m n.dilinD Reporter.
nd New Orleans Special
lot An amusing fact has leaked out in conn
ar ton with the Acklen scandal. Mr.. Ack
by has naturally been DESTROYS of obtaining {
tdficates of character, and apparently til
have not been easy to get. Ex-Goy. Ha
Ter our newly appointed superintendent of
nd New Orleans mint, was willing to bel
IAN friend in distress, and was in Washington
mo the time of the alleged scene at "Welcker
M Hahn knows what IL IS TO need tne EMO
of ment of ones friends, and was willing
assume that he knew something