Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-19
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Editorial in New York World
As will be seen by the Worlds "voices in
the Air" this morning, the appointment of
Senator Window to be secretary of the treas
ury, which was received with incredulons sur.
prise all over the country, is received with blank
amazement in Mr.. WINDOWS own State of
Minnesota. This feeling is quite as fully ex.
pressed in the friendly comments of the Re-
publican journal of St. Paul, as in the hostile
comments OF the Democratic journal of that
capital. Upon the whole, the benevolence of
the Pioneer Press seems Ito shed even a more
CHASTITY light upon the most important APP
pointment Mr.. Garfield has made, than the
malevolence of the GLOBE. A financial
prophet is not apt to be without honor in
his own country. The minds of most
men are so empty of anything resembling an
idea of political finance that a man who
knows or pretends to know never so little
about it can commonly set up with brilliant
success as an oracle in his own neighborhOod,
where he is sure to be tapped on suitable oe-
caslons by those who know nothing. The
normal minnesota idea'' of finance is sim
pie and comprehensive. It seems to consist in
not paying man what you owe him. This
is perfectly ineligible financial creed-so
ineligible that it captivates alike the guile
less Puritan farmers of Ohio and the guileless
Catholic peasantry of ireland. Its adherents
in Minnesota extend it not only to State but
to municipal finance. Here is Duluth itself,
the coming metropolis of the continent, "the
Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas" abdi-
eating its municipal birthright, SO to
speak, as we learn from our esteemed
Republican contemporary, the Times, that it
may emphasize the creed of Minnesota, and
actually degrading itself from it's rank as
Getty not to say Zenith City, into mere
nadir village, in order to escape paying an un-
fortunate Englishman some money which it
owed him in its capacity as city, but repudi-
ates in its capacity as village. If Mr. Win
dom had penetrated the Arcana of political
economy far enough to discover that 1t is wise,
on the whole. as well as right. when you owe
man debt to pay it, one could understand
how he should be without honor in Minnesota.
Both of our esteemed Pauline contemporaries
remind their readers that Mr.. Win
but it cannot be that he went wrong in favor
of paying tho debts of Minnesota. It Is quite
another blunder to which they refer, for they
both remind their readers that he apologized
furthermore for going wrong by pleading an
ignorance of the subject. No man even in
Minnesota can ever have apologized upon this
ground either for paying his own debts or for
ADVISING OLneT peOplc W pay IuelTs. a man
who has once apprehended the great truth that
when you owe man debt you ought to pay
it, feels that his feet are on the rock. Besides,
it is not upon record that Mr.. Window ever
voted or spoke in favor of paying the debts of
Minnesota, while it is upon record that he has
several times voted in the United States Senate
for devices as to the issue of currency which
were intended to discharge everybody in
America from the necessity of paying debts in
full.
This is not promising sort of statesman
for the secretaryship of the treasury. Senator
WINDOWS candid confession that he knew
nothing of finance might be considered credit
able to his moral nature if he had ever said or
done anything in the Senate to lead people into
delusion on that subject. But this is not
the case. And secretary Of the treasury is
supposed to be appointed not because of his
candor and modesty so much as because he
piled for a situation as bookkecper and can
didly avowed that he knew nothing about
keeping books might be an ornament to a
Sunday school, but he would MT be of much
use in bank. Moreover, as letter written
by him to a league in New York and printed
at the time in the World few weeks ago
abundantly shows, Mr.. Window knows no
more of our system OF transportation than
he does of finance, but he has not yet come to
tion IF he should ayow his Ignorance of
tronsnortation neonIe wonld donhfless resnect
hin, more hnr his ayowal wonld NOT he eyact.
~ q reason wbv he shonld he made Secretary
IL the treasury The friendly ST. Paul naner
ohsaryss thot Ut ia q GOOD anonrv for his spc.
cess that he ia not welded to preconceived
theores y which is q neat wav of aommending
q non to- snch an office Fancv finance min,
str t.. whose mind is q blank unon the subject
81 ananceJ II really seems lie an nncan.
sc;ons nis o;arism of Sidney Smiths lannon's
SAVING that he never read hook before re-.
v;sw;SSo 4 for fear his INDICTMENT would he
h;ossad
If ~ h. ;onoront ia to he unnre;udiced a
won,d aeem that in Mr., Window we shall have
the most nnnreindiced secretarv of the treas.
,,rv wbose services the Tinted States have aver
enioved The tariff affords an almost honnd.
lass seld for The exercise of Mr.. Windom,s
Lob Of information n we NAV indoe from
h; sH remarks to . renorter of the Boston HeroM
Which .ib were nrinted in that journal Yesterday
IN the course of the interview Mr. Window
Observed that he had made NO sneeches On the
tarff for the reason that 1.-THE matter has not
bean Sss M 'o' discussed S ' in the Senate
for .everaI years r.. ercent NV Senator
Reck and others who lnyped # in irrele.
vsntlv =" He added: ~The tariff i, a busi.
raos Sn..t;on nnreIv ~ in which we sunnose +
di Igs S from ather nuestions If finance and
that ssit changes with the VARYING necessities
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