St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-04

U (IA9 LIS PREDATORY SIdG6luGllG Is
NSSEpf made merely because my 10y
x~3ESS4A. atty to the Flour City might be
RtIgG$ M questioned after have shown
W. ENMPup some of the monumental
y TSSJ evidences of the gullibility
@ which runs rampant in the
"a city. Is it not singular that
with the boundlesS enterprise,
the marvellous energy, the keen wittedness
and the shrewd public spirit that character
lze the people of Minneapolis, they should
SO often permit frauds-even encourage
them-to run riot over them?
Some incidents are conspicuous.
There was Prof Denton.
This occurred some ten years ago.
Encouraged by such prominent men as S.
e. Gale, this rank lmposter drew big houses
and carried bushels of money out of the
city. He was made the rage and was
fairly worshipped, and yet, after all, he
was only mass of high-sounding words
veritable quack, who laughed IN his
sleeves at the profound impression he had
made upon a susceptible community,
headed by some of the very best people in
town. No effort was made to trace the
mans pedigree while he was
here and the jeers of sceptics
were hushed by the patronage
"a cAiO AiSll d4IO lSdlucu. Ills OlO lTduu
Denton linked the materialistic and the
spiritualstic in the closest bonds-made IRE
and water actually harmonize. He was an
apostate Methodist minister and ran off on
the Darwinian idea without comprehending
1t. Ii man was thief he would say:
Don't blame him. but think of his monkey
ancestors and pity him." He boosted of
walking down Washington avenue arm in
arm with spirits and all such nonsense as
that. Yet he drew crowded houses and
was lauded and applauded by S. G. Gale.
Frank Mead and w. A. Croffut. They
laughed at his spiritualism, but accepted
his anthropologic ideas in the same breath.
What Internal nonsense all this is, and yet
how easily this man gulled Minneapolis.
This was some time ago.
On that account is easily pardoned,
But here is this mind and faith cure bust
ness.
A lot of cultured, cultivated and sensible
people on the East side are half daft on
this silly idea, and ministers of the gospel
are preaching it up to their flocks. They
say young Chute had his knee cap restored
by mind cure, and Dr.. Stryker, that limo
cent, guileless, yet gullible old speci-
men OF Christianity seems to firmly
indorse and believe in it. In pure simplic-
lty of heart he believes what has been told
him and is perfectly sincere in his belief, as
no one who knows him will doubt. Dr.
Chute believes in it and he is the fountain
head from which Rev. Stryker gets his
source of supplies. There are too many
sensible and Intelligent people in Andrew
church to be led away on any such false
scent as this, and though DR.. Stryker may
get new church he will weaken his in
tiuence with his people by following this
course This is mind cure. 1t must be
kept separ ate and distinct from faith cure.
The apostle OF the latter, piouS and rever-
end fraud, was here last week and at his
seances varied the mOnotony of prayer with
solicitations for subscriptions to paper he
publishes. Yet even this did not open the
eyes of those present. He warned Mime
apolis to turn from the wrath to come and
pray to God to avert the impending destruc-
atientr OF course Minneapolis is a modern
sGomorrah. Everybody who reads the
Tribune knows this fair city is a beautiful
perdition, for that brilliant newspaper never
loses an opportunity of telling the world
how bad Minneapolis is. But /
never before believed the wrath of
God hung threatenngly over the
city, until Rev. Heller told seance on the
East side. But after he had prayed and
gathered in few subscribers he cured one
lady of all the ills the flesh is heir to by
amounting her forehead with oil and then
praying for her. If l am not mistaken
one of her ailments consisted of false teeth,
and they were replaced with a beautiful
natural SET before the prayer was half
ended.
0, my beloved ethyl
How long will this be permitted?
Would other cities endure as you do?
What other city would permit this school
board affair to run on, without public indig-
nation. longer than the first meeting of the
board? The air of this fair metropolis is
poisoned every day with talk and rumors
against the integrity of members of the
school board, and yet these members do not
care to even vindicate themselves. They
must know of it. A. G. Austin cannot
but know that every street-corner gossip
says he makes q living out of his position. |
which pays no salary, and yet he has never
risen in virtuOuS Indignation to ask |
the board to set him right. |
1t is publicly charged that the
board has been bribed by the owners of |
certain steam-heating apparatus and the |
of certain school furniture. |
The board knows this, and yet does not |
seem anxious to rescue its good name.
w udlLillUS apathy Is UIliSI
Can the board affect not to know what |
the curb has to say of it? Or. knowing it,
can it afford to have such stories remain in
circulation? What other
city on the broad continent would permit |
this state of affairs to go on? Dispatches
sent out from Minneapolis to various papers
state the school affairs of the city are in the
hands of ring. What member of the
school board has taken steps to contradict
this? 1t is asserted in the public prints of
the city that the board is lied by the nose
by a self-assertive incompetent" and who
will rise up on the part of the board and
it? Is the board asleep? Is it
dead TO lis individual and its corporate
honor?
The people have voice.
Why do they not use it?
Why do they not assemble in mass meet
ing and declare that no public board
shall be slandered in this gross man
ner and demand that the board give
a satisfactory account of itself? Here is a
body of men who annually. dsburse nearly
$500, 600 of public moneys. and has become
a public bywortl of reproach A committee
of architects is calling or it for better build
ingS: committee Of physicians denounces
the public schools as SO many slaughter
houses for children: the papers are demand
ing light, and vet. the board sits there like so
many StOughton bottles and asks its COM
mttee to examine itself and declare whether
it Is guilty!
What farce that was.
Other things were quite as bad.
What other city or what other board
would have even thought of paying Tous-
ley his regular salary as superintendent
during the time he was serving his country
as consul at Trieste? Thwarted in that.
the board takes a new tack. and when he