Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-13
SATTEKLEE DEFENDED.

''Jastice" Replies to the TriJuae,s HOG
Wash.
To the Editor of the Globe:
I find the following in the Minneapolis
Tribune:
To the Editor of the Tribune:
If ever genuine, important and enduring
service was rendered to great cause by pub
lie journal that service was rendered to the cause
of temperance and ultimate prohibition by the
Tribune when it exposed the inwardnes of Mr..
w. w. Satterlee's political methods and princi-
pies. To an extent that few dream of this mans
insincere and laundering course has cursed the
effort to enlist sensible and high-minded tenn
perance men in this part Of Minnesota in any
active public movement. They almost uni
formly point to Satterlee, shake the head and
declare that if to openly support prohibition
means to train with him they must be excused
He has been a veritable old man of the sea to
the temperance cause, but 1 predict that his
power for harm will be fousd to have virtually
ended with your relentlessly kind and courte-
Ously annihilating blizzard. MINNESOTA
Austin, Dec. IL.
Mr. Minnesota, of Austin, is one of the
sadly deluded; deluded by the evil mach
nations of treacherous political tricksters
and demagogues. The service he speaks
of is not genuine, as he supposes, because
it does not belong to and did not proceed
from the original stock of truth. It was
spurious, false, unreal and unnatural. It
was not of itself sim portant," but pertained
to one of the most important men in this
state and to one of the greatest national
issues that statesmen were ever called upon
to solve. 1t was not "enduring'' because
error and falsehood must die, while Mr..
Satterlee and the truth he represents
though crushed to earth will rise again.
The effort was intended to be very
damaging to the cause of the Pro-
hibition party, which is the purest
and grandest cause that a public
journal ever stopped to willfully and ma
liciously misrepresent and foully belle.
Everything that the Tribune says in favor
of prohibition I am thankful for; but
everything it says in favor of the Repub-
ican party and against the Prohibition
party is work done in direct opposition ssto
the cause of temperance and ultimate pro-
hibition." The Tribune never has Sex
posed to the public gaze the true inward
ness of Mr.. W. w. Satterlee's political
methods and principles, because they are
pure and lovely as the lily of the valley
or the rose of Sharon; and still the
Tribune and the ''echo" from Austin CRY
out, ''away with him; cruelty him, cruelty
him." The only charge that can be sub
stantiated against Mr.. Satterlee is that he
has forsaken the Republican party and
persuades men everywhere to repent and
bring forth works mete for repentance by
leaving the old whisky party. The ''sens-
ible and high-minded men" mentioned are
those who talk reform but vote for hell
through party that has in the past sup
ported the traffic and is now more than
ever bound by the power of king alcohol.
Where is your sense and where your honor?
Why do they so persistently attack him?
Because they know that he is giant-a
mighty power in the land-as Prof. Harvey
well said in Association hall, che is the
mighty colossus of the temperance cause
in the Northwest" He is ringing the death
kneii of the Republican party and of the
liquor traffic which that party supports and
in turn depends upon for it's own
existence; and the Tribune blizzard
instead of mufiiug the bell
or cutting the rope or staying the hand
that rings, simply aids in waiting the
notes of gladness and triumph abroad
through the land. w. w. Satterlee's sspow-
er" for good still survives in spite of the
relentless" and perfdious stream of cal
umny that is constantly pouring in upon
him. So prosecuted they the prophets be-
fore him. Rejoice, Bro. Satteriee, when
men say all manner of evil against you
falsely for righteousness sake. Rejoice
and be glad for great is your reward.
w. w. Satterlee is one of the leading
statesmen of the present age. There are not
100 men in the United States who stand
above him in ability and honor. And if the
S'echoes" (s'sensible and high-minded
temperance men?'') throughout the
state could sit at his feet and listen to the
words of wisdom that fall from his heroic
lips, as light cometh from heaven and dis
pels the darkness of night, SO would their
dark hearts and minds be illuminated with
pure and unadulterated truth; and they
would join with the queen in saying, s'The
half has never been told-nothing but
lies have I heard of this good and great
man." There is not Republican in the
state who dares to meet him before the
people. JUSTICE.
Minneapolis, Dec. II.