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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20
Clear the Sidewalks.

By recent decision of the supreme court,
the citizens Of New York city are Informed
that the "streets which include the sidewalks
are for the public at large This will proba-
bly, be news to the shop keepers and tradesmen
in this city, who appear to imagine that the
sidewalks in front Of their places
of business belong exclusively to
them for advertising purposes. It is disgrace
to our city that pedestrians are forced off the
sidewalks by goods boxes cradles, hardware.
wooden men for signs, etc, etc. As you pass
a clothing store, should the wind be blowing
you are sure to have your hat knocked off bv
some article of clothing Tapping in the
breeze. Projecting signs, always dangerous in
high winds, boxes and other articles of mer-
chandise should be ordered off the sidewalks in
order that the walking public may have the
free use of the highways dedicated to its use,
Will the authority competent to act take this
matter in hand and give us clean streets? Such
action will meet with the approval of everv
one and add greatly to the neat. appearance Of
our otherwise attractive streets.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20

time to time that he has been gradually in
creaslng the debt ever since the LIST of June,
1873. This has been accomplished in various
ways, but principally through his peculiar
process OF refunding the debt. Instead of
calling in the six per cent. bonds and retir-
ing them before issuing the four per cents
ne has pursued the opposite course, and has
issued the four per cents and afterwards
called in the others, SO that there has been a
double supply of bonds extant, upon all of
which the people have had to pay interest.
by this means Mr.. Sherman has been able
to render an important service to few
prominent banks, and to add largely to our
national debt.
But Mr.. Sherman has another trick by
which he manages to pull the wool over the
eyes OF the people who do not believe with
him that national debt is national bless
ing. In his monthly debt statement
he is in the habit of deducting
from the total debt the amount
of cash in or supposed to be in the treasury.
Thus in the statement for August he places
the total debt, less cash in the treasury, at
$2,o2s, 766, 2O4, and seeks to convey the i'm
preston that the people are paying interest
only on this amount, whereas the amount of
cash in the treasury should be added to it,
making total Indebtedness of $2,273,422,-
432. Now, supposing Mr.. Sherman should
adopt Mr.. Hayes suggestions, and instead
of increasing the debt apply the surplus of
cash towards the redemption of interest
bearing bonds. This would save the country
a large sum annually, and would be highly
appreciated by the people.
We do not hesitate to commend the views
expressed by Mr.. Hayes, and only regret that
he seems powerless to compel Mr.. Sherman
to carry them out. 1t Is manifest to every
one that the debt could be materially de-
creased by the proper application of money
lying idle in the treasury, and if Mr.. Sher-
man will not thus apply it his successor will
be compelled to do so. There should be no
delay in the matter.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20
BEACONSFIELD,s BIUNDERs

One would think that man of Lord
Beaconsfeld's intelligence and means of in
formation could not have been guilty of a
display of such dense ignorance as he gave
voice to at the agricultural banquet at Ryles-
bury on Thursday. In speaking of Ameri-
can competition with Great Britain, he ia
reported to have said
Inc greatest apprehension ie felt in the
United States that they cannot compete with
Canada, owing to their high taxation and h;oh
wages. Since the surrender of the territories
or the Hudson's Bay company. Canada nod
become possessed of an unlimitabIe and fertile
wilderness. Nearly all the chief landholders
In the extreme Western States of America had
sold out and Como to that wilderness. and hoN
gun the work of cultivation" there. he had
heard on higa authority that Canada expected
to outstrip the United States in Connection
for the European markets. He therefore adj
vised farmers of England not to be precipitate.
Another high authority had informed him that
under the circumstances the markets of the
United States would be disturbed. and that
with the impulsive character of humanity in
the United States, the Canadian wilderness
would soon be occupied by millions.
Either Lord Bsaconsfield has been eriey-
ously imposed upon by his informants, or he
has deliberately and for purpose misrep-
resented the facts. So far from any appre-
hension of Canad ian competition existing,
we are happy to say that the United States
fears none from that or any other quarter.
The productions of Canada are so insipnifi-
cant compared with our own that competi
ton is wholly out of the question. It will
be century at least before Canada will have
approached the present productiveness of
the United States, if she ever does 80. The
opening up of the lands of the Hudson's
Bay company excites no alarm here for the
simple reason that but little of it is fit for
agricultural purposes, and the statement
that our landholders are selling out and
focking to that barren wilderness is simply
absurd. The fact is that many emiarants
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20
WHEN money was needed for the expense

WHEN money was needed for the expenses
Of the Ohio campaign Mr.. Sherman permit
ted the employees of the treasury department
to be assessed small percentage on their
salaries, and about ten thousand dollars
was procured. Recently an agent of the
New York Republicans applied for permits
sion to 60 through the department and
solicit money for the purpose of conducting
the campaign in that State. Mr.. Sherman
refused the permission sought for the reason
that 1t would be in violation of Mr.. Hayes
civil service order. 1t is evident that Sher-
man doesn't propose to help Prof. Conkling
out of the scraps he has got himself into,
but will let him paddle his own canoe.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20
REDUCE THE PUBLIC DEpr

We desire to call the attention of Mr.. John
Sherman to q speech made by MIR. R. B.
Hayes at Detroit on Thursday on the sinh.
ject Of public and private debts. It ia a
good speech-much better than Mr.. HAYES
is in the habit of making-and contains
some facts and suggestions that Mr.. Sherman
who has charge of the national treasury
would do we'll to read and ponder. In il
Mr.. Hayes strongly condemns the habit into
which the American people have seemingly
fallen of running into debt. He holds that
1t Is not a wise financial policy which leads
to an increase of the debts of municipalities.
STATES or OF the general government, but
that 1t is the forerunner of bankruptcy and
ruin Mr.. Sherman, it seems, disaprees
with his superior officer, for it appears from
the statements he gives to the public from
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20

who went to the Northwest territory in the
spring are crossing the line into
Minnesota and Dakota for the rea-
son that they can find better and
cheaper lands, more genial climate,
and better return for their labor in the
States than they can in Manitoba. We have
lands sufficient for a population of millions
of agriculturists, and the fact that more
than fifty thousand emigrants have settled
in this State alone the present year does not
indicate that we are losing our population to
any alarming degree.
Perhaps Lord Beaconsfeld is right in
saying that Canada expects to outstrip the
United States in competition for the Euro
pean markets. Her people are of very
sanguine temperament, but it is patent to
every person who knows anything about the
productions and capabilities of the two
countries that her expectations will not be
realized. He is also right in saying that the
markets of the United States are liable to
be disturbed. j., They are in constant state
of disturbance from January to December
constantly fuctuating between high
and low prices as the law of
supply and demand or the interests
of spectators dictate. But there is no like
lihood that these disturbances will fill the
great Canadian wilderness with thrifty ag-
riculturists. They are content where they
are, and even if they were not they would
hesitate long before emigrating to so barren
territory as that just opened to settlement
in the far Northwest. -.
Lord Beaconsfeld very evidently has been
badly fooled, and as consequence he has
made himself ridiculous in the eyes of the
whole world. Yet he is not an exception
among Englishmen. The Ignorance of
America and her institutions that is mani
tested on occasions by men who are appar-
emily intelligent and we'll informed on other
subjects is simply marvellous. It would be
we'll for them to take few easy lessons in
physical geography before setting themselves
up as modern Sir Oracles.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20

HE Democratic State central committee
Of Wisconsin has chosen Hon. James G..
Jenkins, of Milwaukee, as the candidate of
the party for governor, vice Mitchell, de-
clined. The selection is a judicious one,
and ought to be ratified by the people. Mr..
Jenkins, though comparatively young man,
is one of the ablest lawyers and most elo-
quent advocates in the State. He is O
nephew of the late Chancellor walworth,
and possesses many of the mental qualities
that distinguished that eminent jurist. He
will make strong canvass, and If elected
will make the best governor Wisconsin has
ever had.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20
SILVER NOT REMONETyZED.

It is very evident to every business man
that silver has been remonetized only in
name, and that it is still regarded as de-
based coin by the officers of the United
States government. Only last week the
treasury department refused to receive silver
from the national banks in payment of
their five per cent. redemption furd. The
banks refuse to receive it, except in very
limited amounts, and postmasters refuse it
in payment for stamps or postal orders OK
oept in sums of five dollars or less. The
fact is patent that silver is yet practically
demonetized.
When the reconciliation act was passed
by Congress, the intention was to place silver
on par with gold--to make it legal tender
for all debts. Mr.. Sherman, backed by
Mr.. Hayes and the moneyed institutions
of New York, entered into con-
spiracy to defeat the purposes Of the
act. 1t was given out officially that the peo-
pie did not desire silver, and would not take
it in payment of debts. Every means that
could be devised by which to throw disre-
pute upon the coinage of the country was
reaorted to. II was sold at first only in
blocks of five thousand dollars at q time
thas depriving persons of limited means of
the privilege of obtaining it. When the
clamor of the business public became too
great to be withstood, the limit at which
purchases could be made was reduced to one
Thousand dollars or1 fno11r IN hale ll,.l
amount. Now, in order to throw still fur
Their discredit upon the silver dollar, the
treasury refuses, in defiance of law, to re-
ceive it for dues. No more Ubiquitous con-
spiracy to depreoiate the currency was ever
devised by the sworn officers of any govern
ment, whose duty it is to maintain and de-
fend the credit of the country at whatever
cost.
1t is very evident that further legislation
by Congress is necessary, and must be had
at an early day. We look to that body for
the enactment of law which shall make the
refusal of any money issued by the govern
ment misdemeanor punishable by fine and
imprisonment. The stamp of the govern
ment upon a coin or piece of paper is or
ought to be a guarantee of it's value, and
government officials ought to be tbs last
persons in the world to repudiate such
moneys. Silver forms necessary part of
the circulating medium of the country, and
it ought to be an absolute legal tender for
all debts of any amount. We regard the eff
forts of Sherman and his pals to throw dis
repute upon this coinage as little less than
crime, and worthy of the severest condemna-
ton. Congress must, at its next session,
take such action as shall compel the score.
tary of the treasury and all officers of the
government to respect the laws of the land
and to cease their efforts to depreciate the
credit and currency of the government which
they unworthily profess to serve.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20
MANKATO.

NJ. J. Sontag has added an eating house to
his other attractions.
Foundation for addition to Whitrock's reei.
denoe nearly completed.
Jack Frost came visiting Wednesday night
and nipped things right and left.
Tho city council passed q resolution at late
meeting to buy 1000 feet of hose.
Fred Themes horse and bakery wagon both
went, and the result was Fred had to yet new
wheel made.
John Murphy, of the firm of Mills & MUIR
ply, Winpebago agency, showed his jovial self
on our streets on Thursday.
A festival and general good time il promised
by the Ladies' Relief society for next Wednes.
day at the Opera House. This is the fun of
doing good.
The bridge men have put in an appearance,
and now we can look forward to lively work. "a
the contract is to be completed by the frat of
March, 1880.
scientific lecture will be given at the Con-
gregational church. next Monday evening, by
Hiram A. Ried, secretary of Iowa Academy Of
Natural Science of Des Moines.
Prima Donna Rosa D. Erina is booked for the
Opera house tonight. Our Irish citizens
should not fail to attend, as she is unsurpassed
in her rendition of Irish melodies.
Frank Schaeffer. of Limetown, was in town
w u0ouoJs ouOwluA monster naf0 smell tur-
tie he had caught in q small lake near his farm.
1t was covered with moss, and had claws over
half an inch in length.
Inc cattle driving business is good in this
| section this season. In less than q week two
large droves have passed through the citv,
Good beef cattle are somewhat scarce, and it
keeps our butchers going pretty lively to sup.
ply the demand.
a. D. Crane, of Garden City, was in the city
on Thursday, and had ten potatoes, the com.
bined weight of which was sixteen pounds.
Some Of those shown are of the Snowflake va.
riety, and were grown from seed not much
larger than hens egg.
An agent + Warner d Foote, map publish
era, was in the oity on Thursday delivering the
new map of Blue Earth county, printed h,
that firm on subscription. It is finely exc
cuted and supplies need much felt by bust
ness men of the county,. !
Mr.. O. b. Mather made flying visit t.
shakopee and st. Paul Wednesday. he re
ports the citizens of 6hakopee as not beins
able to use their new bridge yet. That a per
son can not see, in two days, enough of thu
sanity city to give an opinion of it.
Democratic caucuses tonight. Voters
should remember this fact early and see tina
their name is on the poll list, as it will saw
them the trouble of swearing it in. Some o
the SINISTER element of tho party have bee,
finding fault with the action of the count,
committee in making the ward committees ;
board of election, and also the recording o
Democratic voters. This was done to brea]
up practice these gentry had got into of pack
ing caucuses, and then taking snap Judgment
Thus, few men controlled the nomination O
candidates, and defeated the wishes of tn
people.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20

In view Of the political situation, there
should be full attendance at the Demo.
cratic State convention next Thursday. 1t
Is important to prevent any mistake being
made, and the leading men of the party
should come up to the convention, and come
sufficiently early to counsel and exchange
views previous to their formal action. If
the Democrats don't elect their Governor in
Minnesota this fall, it will be because they
throw away their opportunity next Thurs
day.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20
The Public Library Scheme.
To the Editor of the Globe.

No L UVtSC AtOTUTy SCneN1S.
To the Editor of the Globe.
Governor Ramsey and Col. d. A. Robertson
are, as is well known, conservative prudent
and cautious men. They have been among the
most vigilant and active to keep down taxation,
have advocated the theory that outside capital
lists, who, as Col Hewitt used to saw, have
''biE money, would not put it in solid Sblocks
of buildings so long as the larger share of The
rents was consumed by taxes. vet these excel.
lent gentlemen and useful citizens, when a
crotchet takes possession of their minds, read
lily conclude that for their speciality public
debt would be public blessing.
The opening of public library by the citv
would entail the cost of library building. q
librarian, janitor, purchasing committee,
with repeated calls upon the people for more
money for the purchase of new books.
Who reads! Will the people who live west
of Summit avenue, on the Como road. about
the Round-h or on Dayton's bluff profit by
q library in the city proper? Do families
whose time is daily occupied with hard labor
profit by public library? Do children whose
time is taken up in school or earning iveii-
hood frequent libraries? Is it not rather the
class in easy circumstances, conditioned in life
much like the Governor and Col. Robertson.
with an abundance of elegant leisure on their
hands, with highly cultivated literary and
scientific taste, to whom a good library would
be not only highly useful, but exceedingly
companionable. To all of this class i good
library of the highest order of modern books.
with easy chairs and comfortable rooms. The
additional tax would be cheerfully paid, but
what show Of argument have we for
taxing the laboring classes to put up 3
building, and stock it with furniture and books
for the delectation of such as are abundantlv
able to crafty their literary taste even to ga
tiety.
But Chicago, with . population of 400, 900
inhabitants, has library a .fortio,i; st. Paul.
with one-eighth Of the population, must also
have one. So. if Chicago spends 800. COO n
books, St. Paul dare not fall behind. When
the Governor presented bis paper to the city
what Boston says of Chicago the citv il
owned by New England. Chicago, by taxation
and interest is. to large extent, il = state Of
serfdom. working for Boston masters. For
one, would rather not be fed on literary prov
ender and lose my little home by taxation. We
are getting our city business in I fair condition
and q result buildings are sprlnging up on
all aides. hope We may profit BY The lesson.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20
Knocking the Germans "HeLz,uards."
St, Peter Times-Dam.

lSS' = SoSA AA"Co-4/CMs
!; The 6candinavians demanded Kittlesor. -
nomination for state treasurer "in the name of
S,oe1era, Norway and Denmark The friends
of Col. Pfaender demanded his nomination
for past honorable service oan A,nerican citizen,
Here, then, was line drawn in that conven-
ton: Sweden, Norway and Denmark on one
side, and American citizens on the other.
Col. Pfaender, it is true, is German. but
his nomination was not asked for Tin the name
of Germany" And when Col. Pfaender went
into the army he did so as an American citizen.
not as German, Turk, Niger, Scandinavian
or. Hottentot. This forcing of Nationality
into State politics is wrong.
The 6candinavians claim that in the nomina-
tion of Kittleson they have knocked the Ger
mans in Minnesota and their Col. Pfaender
hellwards."
The Germans have been insulted, and we de.
sire to know if they propose to take in and
swallow that insult, or will they come up like
.',en and help elect Albert Scheffer for State
treasurer?
Will the Germans Of Nicollet county bow
down to the inuerdo that they are "nothin o
but lot of Dutchmen,'' or will they show
themselves to be men and American citizens?
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20

THs "great Republican victory" in Cali
fornia of which the stalwart organs have
been boasting for some time past, dwindles
down to very insignificant plurality. The
opposition to the Republicans, it appears
from the latest returns, had a clear majority
of over twenty-three thousand. At the last
Congressional election the Republicans had
clear majority over the opposition of nearly
seven thousand votes, which shows a loss of
thirty thousand votes for that party in two
years. This doesn't look like a victory
worth growing very loudly over.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20

JUpa SHELLABARaEn predicts Republic
lican majority in Ohio of from ten to fifteen
thousand votes. This reduction of fifty
per cent. from the figures first claimed. The
party is apparently becoming pretty shaky,
and if the majority continues to diminish in
the same ratio up to the day of election, the
party will find itself without any majority
at all
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20

IT was entirely unnecessary for Mr.. JET
ferson Davis to write letter declining the
issippi. The Office was never offered to him,
and If he was elected he could not take his
seat, for the constitution requires that every,
Senator must be citizen of the United
States, and jeff. is not qualified in that re-
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20
MIxINe THOSE .oH1LDRsx Up.

The Chicago Tribune Has It That Bill
Kings Brother Did tho Defaulting-Tho
Hue and Cry on the Option Business Ex-
planned
As an amusing comedy of errors we quote
the Chicago Tribune version Of the recent
bank defalcation at Minneapolis. It is not
surprising that the option dealers should
feel indignant at being rebuked by Bill
Kings newspaper, for if there is any inap-
propriate source from which to inculcate
virtue that is it. But, though Bill King does
not happen to be brother Of the defaulter
in reality, he might be said to be his brother
in iniquity. As president of the Minneap-
oils fair he allowed and par
tlcipated in the profits of pool
selling, which might be said to be quite as
much of gambling operation as q wheat
option. He licensed all kinds of gambling
appliances to run upon the fair grounds,
sharing in their profits by charging them
tor the privilege Of running their wheels Of
fortune and other gambling games. Mr..
Kings Washington experience, his lobby
career and his intimate connection with
Pacific Mail, might be cited as fully as de.
moralizing as the wheat deals he so loudly
censures. In fact, if the option, men should
try, they might impale their critic more
foroibly than the Chicago Tribune would
have done if no error had been made. The
following is the Tribune version
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20

THE nomination of Long for governor of
Massachusetts by the Republicans does not
seem to give great satisfaction. All the
papers agree that he is far weaker than Mr..
Price, and that it gives Gen. Butler several
additional chances of winning the fight.
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THE WEEKLY GLOBE.

The WEEKLY GLOBE is double the size of
the Daily, eight pages, containing tifty.six
columns. In order to more thoroughly in
troduce it we will send it from this date to
January 1st, 1880, for TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
Send in your lists.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-20
Beat Himself.

l51eepy Eye Wide Awake-Rep.l
Col. Pfaender beat himself by writing let
tiers into this county and elsewhere urging his
friends to send delegates to the convention
favorable to Gov. Pillsbury. Had he kept en-
tirely out of the gubernatorial tumble, and
had he not thrown his influence against Wake
field, we fell confident that the friends Of the
latter gentleman would have voted for
Pfaender.
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Better Than, Those Who Fsgh. Him.
iRushford Star-Ren1

Rushford Star-Rep.1
This is fight that may as we'll be met with
plain talk. Gilman is a better man than any
of those who fight him, or than any in whose
interest the fight is made, whether on or off
the State ticket. He no doubt broke slate on
which were inscribed names different from
those nominated, as we'll as names of future
United States Senators, st. Paul postmasters,
ETC., etc.