Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-04
A PIOUS FRAUD.
WHO PROPOSES TO MASQUERADE As
4 -HORAL REFORMER.

He Escapes Condign Punishment by
Sneaking Away Like Whipped Cur, and
the People nf minneapolis are Conse-
quently Treated to u NauseatIng Oh o
Yesterday Morning.
The editor of the Tribune is one of those
exceptionally too previously righteous be-
ings who are very seldom met in this sinful
world. He has, since our present mayor
has honored his Office, alternately moaned
and walled that the administration should
be liberal government, based upon just
and discriminate enforcement of existing
ordinances of the city. Notwithstanding
the fact that this too utterly righteous man,
who assumes to be wiser than whole colony
of Solomons, and who is commonly known
among his fellow citizens by the peculiarly,
expressive and singularly appropriate title
sgoody, goody," has daily wept and cried
out in his anguish, ''verily [ say unto you,
our city is going to the devil" the city has
thrived amazingly under the rule of Mayor
Ames. Business in its various branches
never has been so prosperous. Everybody,
except cranks and idiots, have accorded
this fact. But this "goody, goody" has
persistently harped upon his one idea-he
never was accused of having more than one
idea at one time-until patience has ceased
to be virtue and the mayor, finally be
coming thoroughly disguised. has been
undignifed enough to notice the Tribune,
and issued an order to Chief Munger to
see to it that the ordinance prohibiting
labor on the Lords holy Sabbath, is not
violated by the pious fraud, the proprietor
of the wicked Tribune. It is meet to say
that the mayor issued this order simply to
illustrate how absurd it is to expect that
every ordinance should be enforced to the
letter, instead of being discriminatory OBJ
served.
It has never been the fortune of a city
of 10000 inhabitants has our proud
metropolis-to enjoy more orderly and
systematic government than that under
which she now prospers. It has by far the
best regulated and governed police force
of any city in the West. Each officer
is a stalwart and vigllant protector
OF the common veal. Few burglaries have
occurred, and none where any amount of
booty was secured. Few outlaws have es-
capped detection and punishment. The
saloons have never been under more re-
straint.
It is true that comparisons are odious,
yet the GLOBE cannot refrain from placing
the present administration side by side by
that of Mayor Rand, the pet of this pious
fraud who edits the Tribune. No one
ever knew of Mayor Rand's giving the
slightest attention to the details of his
Office. His was a veritable vacancy-an
empty administration. Upon the chief of
police devolved the duty of manipulating
so much of the sworn duty of the mayor
as pertained to the control of his especial
department, as we'll as to perform the
duties of his own Office. It was too
much duty responsibility to
impose upon the head of any
one department, and precisely the same
may be said of each and every other de-
partment of the city which como within
the functions of he mayor by virtue of his
oath of Office.
And it is just such loose administra-
ton as was that of Mayor Rand in which
the witless nincompoop of the Tribune re-
joices. Yes, and it is he who now an
nounces that he will step into a pulpit on
Wednesday evening and deliver a lecture
on reformation. Can any one conceive
thing more revolving than for a wicked
man of the world who has no more respect
for the laws of the land and the ordinance
es of the city, than has this pious fraud,
to pollute the pulpit of a church of the
Lord by standing therein and expostulat-
ing upon any topic which should involve
single idea of morality? And this man is
a Republican leader.
There is little doubt that Acting Mayor
Matthew Walsh would never have revoked
Mayor Ames' order to arrest the pious
fraud and his hirelings had he not been ap-
prised of the fact that he (the pious fraud
had sneaked away like a guilty cur, and
only left his employees to suffer the penal
ties of the law.