St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-30
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cluded to display fit of loyalty to St. Paul
by taking up the school census Of St. Paul
and Minneapolis, and en1eavoring to prove
thereby that st. Paul had the larger popula-
ton of the two cities. This caused de-
cided racket in the Minneapolis patronage
of that sheet, and something had TO be done
to mollify its up town subscribers. So it
hunted for an opportunity.
Min neapolis has half dozen bridges con-
Meeting the east and west divisions of the
city, and they have aided greatly
in developing the town. st.
Paul has only one bridge and
is greatly retarded thereby. There is a move
ment to build q second bridge in ST. Paul,
and here came the p. P'S opportunity. 1t
could make peace with Minneapolis by as
sailing the second bridge and so
continuing 10 retard St. Paul.
The way to do this was to
lie and lie It did right royalty.
II announced that the cost of the
new bridge would be s7Oo, 900, though the
engineer stated it would not exceed $500, 600
and that bridge as good as the present one
could be built for $500, 600. Finally its lying
became so outrageous that City Engineer
Somers exposed its rascality and
the p. p. apologized, saying, in
regard to Mr.. Somers reply,
eve have no disposition TO question the
entire accuracy and good faith Of these
statements" This Was November 20 that it
abandoned its fusilade on the bridge and not
having that leverage 10 make peace with its
beligerent Minneapolis subscribers, on the
21st, II threw out the following olive branch: :
"The Pioneer Press has done more 10 advance
and advertise the legitimate interests OF Mime
apolis than all other newspapers combined"
In spite OF all this the other Minneapolis
papers kept the p. p. rasped up on the use
it made Of the school census figures, and
another up town subscriber having
dropped of, Il looked about
for some further balm. Having gotten into
all the trouble through its school figures il
evidently concluded that ''the hair of the dog
would cure the bite" and accordingly de-
cided to use the schools as basis for an
other and satisfactory apology TO Minneapo-
lis. Accordingly a violent assault was
concocted upon the public schools of St.
Paul The buildings were berated, the su-
perintendent and teachers ridiculed, the
board of education denounced, ETC., while IN
the same breath most fulsome praise
was heapei upon Minneapolis in
all these respects. The GLOBE repro
duces on the ninth page of this
mornings issue the comments made upon
this public school onslaught by the Mime
apolis Tribune to enable its readers to see
what a wonderfully loyal friend St. Paul is
developing in the p. p. Here at home the
school board and our school system needs no
defense from the venal, black
mailing newspaper hoodlum. The
board of education is con-
posed of honest, intelligent and faithful citi-
zens who are laborng conscientiously TO adj
vance the educational interests of the city.
The p. p. itself has apologized, either pub
liciy or privately, to every member Of the
board it so falsely assaulted, but that does not
prevent its lying diatribes being used to the
detriment of St. Paul, in the manner which
the quotation from the Minneapolis Tribune
illustrates. The viperish p. p. has been
masquerading of late as especially jealous to
advance the interests of St. Paul, and it is to
strip the mask off and display the ears Of the
animal that this comment is made.