St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-01
The Minister'S C0nnudrum Continued.
MrNSEAPoLIs, March 81, 1884.

I1le Minister'S C0nnudfum Continued
To the Editor of the Globe:
| MINNEAPOLIs, March 81, 1884
sometimes pull the end of crasscut saw
| as have listened to its monotonous musi
it seemed to say, ''do not take the money
OF your employer without working for it
and above all things do not be a hypocritefol
that is double iniquity.''
Being only working man, do not quit,
understand the conundrum at the head o
my article under date of March %. l ex
pect to hear it explained
Sunday morning by those whose
duty it is to explain amatter which is of sucl
vital importance to the well being of the PEG
pie. There can be no evasion, as this matter
strictly concerns the good of every man
woman and child both here and hereafter
To every minister, who has not the Christian
courage and loyalty to duty, to explain it
and explain it truly say, - False teacher il
Israel - " Unfaithful Waterman ON the tower
OF Zion" The laborer is worthy of his hire, )
you are not faithful workman in the vine
yard OF the Lord, you are eating the bread Of
ldleness, and returning nothing for YOU
pay. Are you not more interested in the
fleece than liz ,tiock.
Is patriotism involved in this issue, or have
we reached that stage ''Where fortunes are
made and men decayed,' when we no longer
respect such useless commodity as patriot
ism. Dnring the war Charles Evans Holt was
found at the rear end of musket ready tc
stay the sacriligious hand Of the southern
traitor as he attempted to tear down tie
sacred stars and stripes. In the hour that
tried mems souls, his was put into balance
and not found wanting, he risked his life fol-
his country and came very near loosing it.
''The brave soldier meier despise'
'HOnor where honor is due" Ames also
met the southern rebel in battle array, looked
him straight in the eye and
LOST HIS LIFE
all but 11S pounds of body, which, together
with the chronic diarrhGa, was all that he had
when he came home.
But the worthy George A. Pillsbury, Oh,
where was he! In pleasant New England
home enjoying the comforts Of life, did he,
or did he not, care for the welfare of the
country if he did care what evidence did he
give OF his patriotism. He was Democrat
and not war Democrat either War Demo
Gratis, God bless them, are as good if not
better than Republicans. He was one OF
those Democrats that chimed in with the res
olution that "the war was q failure That
resolution cost the life OF many noble boy
in blue.
How old is the Hon. George A. Pillsbury
in Republicanism! Is he not one of those
men that is wise in his day and genera
tion,' and that when he came out here and
looked the field over he deemed it prudent to
change his principles and become a real
good Republican. Say, does it not look as
though he was after the ''loaves and fishes. y
This man who has no record of honor from
the war, comes here and proposes to become
the Republican dictator of Minneapolis, or
perhaps he would be content if we make
him Gar.
In regard to the respectable way in which
the Hon. George A. Pillsbury got the Repub-
lican nomination after the most consummatc
scheming and fishing night and day for it
during the course of months, just ask the $50
ghosts of the honest Wyman movement.
There is enough of them TO tell all about it..
1t is a ghostly affair.
About that withdrawing that Geo. A. has
received from those fellows that examined
the stone cutting business, it is the poorest
job of the kind | ever s;tw. After scraping
together all the material they could possibly
find they did not get enough to cover one
side of his face, lie looks ten times more
hidious now than before they commenced;
wash it off and let him alone. He did
give the $4,000 job to the convicts and
there is no use of any hypocritical sophistry
about it. William King and Fletcher had no
hand in that whitewashing or they would
have made him look real nice.
Is loyalty to the city's best interests, to
morality, to home and to the family and fire
side the issue in this election? What about
Whisky Soaked Glenn, the conceted little
Davy Johnson and the respectable saloon
keepers that his newspaper organs talk about,
and the rumored story of promise to keep
the license low in case he is elected, though his
promises, do seem to be somewhat tickle, at
least | think they look that way TOD T. Wyman.
Does the above combination, Glen, johnson,
saloonkeepers, and the Hon. George A.
Pillsbury look like morality! Please tell me
what kind of a reception would Glen, John
son and respectable saloonkeepers get in a
Pilsbury parlor six months from now.
want to say to Shaw and Nettleton, those two
gentlemen OF peculiar veracity that have
been harping so much about soiled doves,
that [ have not seen what [ knew to be a
prostitute on the streets of Minneapolis; per-
haps these gentlemen have had experience.
To the pure all things are pure.
Some time after the spring election Of
1882 poor Nettleton announced temperance
pretty strongly, but the party lash was APP
piled at the Washburn election and he had
to get back into the traces. He got He
stayed there then until the time Of the
Wyman movement. He then dared to have
the objectionable presumption to act without
consulting the machine. Sattcrlee says, ''the
party lash was severely applied to Nettleton
and now / see that, dog-lille, he obeys first
rate.'
Both Nettleton and Shaw have been caught
so often in ''the trick of the miller's boy, that
it don't make any difference now what they
say, no one VIII believe them. They swear
at Holt and abuse Alnes; that's right, both
those candidates risked their lives to strike the
shackels off our dark browed brothers of the
south.
Holt was in the minority before the war:
he lived to see his heaven born principles
triumph and become tle faith of this great
nation. He is in the minority now but is
not in the wrong, but l suppose he is not
wise in his day and generation as some OF
the ministers are.
If Prohipitionists kept silent the very stones
would cry out.
ROBERT ALEXANDER MCDONALD.
CHALLENGING VOTERS.