St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-30
coon DIMES

series OF interviews WIFI pIOlHlneIll
business men, relating TO the logic of
! the present situation in wheat and
speculative enterprise in general.
While uniformity of opinion is scarcely
possible on any subject, the consensus
of well-matured views respecting the
present outlook is in the last degree en-
cOuraging. Briefly summarized, our
| leading business men believe that the
upward tendency of the great Mime
sofa staple is the warrant of better
times and renewed vitality in business
affairs. 1t affords the farmers a profit
able market for their surplus products,
brings money into the state, puts in mo-
ton all the restless and vitaliZing
agencies of trade and redeemS enter
prise and investment from long
continued lethargy. Under its in
tiuence great many things that
would have been done but for the
scarcity of money can now be carried
out. The returns from his wheat will
enable the farmer to paw his debts and
buy more largely from the merchant
and the dealer in agricultural imple-
ments. From these the money which
has remunerated the grain-grower will
find its way into all the channels OF
trade. helping forward the carpenter,
joiner and the mason, and incidentally
putting better prices upon real estate
and labor, giving new blood and energy
to all the arteries of business and III
dustry. 1t not only insureS better times,
Inf 10 hn lNanir,,iY,cr Of n nrn Of
long DELAYED prosperity for the dormant
enterprises of the state and city.
INCREASING 100 RAPIDLY.
1t was the conviction of DR.. FRANK
LIN that the time would come in Amer
lea when the population would multiply
beyond the need and means of the
country. The same views are shared
by Prof. NULLY, and he believes that
the time is now upon US. What makes
the aspect of affairs more gloomy to
this philosopher is the obvious GER
tainty that the trouble has only fairly
begun. 1t is clear that America and
especially our particular portion Of it
win 90 on increasing more rapidly in
the future than it has in the past. 1T is
possible that that is one reason why
Senator SHERMAN declared. few days
since, that We should find it necessary
to incorporate in one union all the
American states from Alaska to Pata-
gonia. There is no denying that many
portions of the country are already too
pOpulous for prosperity or comfort.
The annual increase of native pOpula-
ton is large, while shiploadS of immi-
grants are landed on our shores every
week. We are rapidly approaching the
condition of foreign countries in re-
spect to population. There Will soon be
too many Americans in the United
States, as there are now too many Irish
men in Ireland. too many Dutch in Hol-
land, too many Germans in Germany
and too ma Italians in Italy.
| gyHoweyer. We have a splendid medical
profession in America. and that must be
relied upon as an agency for reducing
our population and keeping it within
reasonable bounds. If it can be demon
strated, as is often asserted. that doctors
kill more persons than they cure, it
might be good policy to greatly increase
the number of medical colleges. to en-
large their facilities for grinding out
doctors, and to encourage students to
attend them. If, on the contrary, it can
be shown that medical practitioners
save many lives that are not needed for
| doing the business of the country, then
the question of restricting the number
of doctors, or of dispensing with them
altogether, would deserve careful con-
sideration. In that early period of the
formation of the human race when
monkeys began to aspire to become
men, only the ''fitteSt survived" accord
ing to the theory of DARWIN. With the
establishment of free hospitals, the
training of nurses, and the more thor
ough education of masters of the heal
ing art, new era began, in which the
unfittest survived. There were no med
zeal colleges and no doctors at the time
when grinning monkeys were trans
formed into serious philosophers, and
perhaps the race would make another
! advance if we should return to first
principles.