St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19
A FOOLS WISDOM.


Senator BUCHANAN. His record in the
senate last year, as ] remember, made
him host of friends among Republic
cans and Democrats. He is not poll
tician, for the very good reason that he
does not know how to be. j. q. FLYNN,
or Little Falls, am certain, is the one
who educated Mr.. BUCKNIAN in iegisla-
tive campaigns, but he will not do it
for governor. There is not the remot
est danger of the Republicans selecting
man of this character for the office.
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L have referred heretofore to tele-
phonic conversations which occasionally
take place between JOEL HEATWOLE,
and X. G. EVANS, of Minneapolis. The
latest was after the election of the lat
ter to the position of national commit
teeman. HEATwOLE rang up Mime
apOlis, and after the usual ''helloeS,"
addressed EVANS like this:
''Ah there, II. CT"
''Stay there, JOEw
''What do you meanT'
Nothing, Joe. was only quoting
MCGILL."
Quoting MCGILL?''
eyes. When you said that you didn't
want, wouldn't take and couldn't have
an office, didn't MCGILL tell you to stay
there?''
"Um-m-m-m."
''HellO, JOEr'
''HellOi'
''Who's the man that always gets
left?''
''Give it up.'
''The one who never wants an Office
and is inde-ha, ha-inde-ha, ha-inde-
pendent"
If Brothers PROSSER and DANIELS
were inclined to laugh at the quotations
from the letter from Nebraska in this
column last Sunday, they certainly can
not do so now in the face of additional
testimony. Illinois has enjoyed the
benefits of high license law since 1888.
AS to how the liquor men regard it to-
day [ quote from letter written by the
secretary of the DICK Brothers Quincy
Brewing company, Quincy Ill. All
high license mOraliStS lend me your ear.
These are choice sentences:
High license has not hurt our bust
ness so far. Our experience is that
moderate $500 high license law, if not
provisions, will not lessen the cOnSump-
ton of liquor. A license as mentioned
above will bar out prohibition and will
give the business legal standing"
Ii any one knows the liquor dealer
does. as to whether high license is a
moral or police regulation. His teSti-
mony lin this instance and the other Of
last Sunday that the drinker takes as
much and that the trade does not suffer
under the law should be valuable. |
have but to add THAT as rule the
whisky dealers of this state are highly
pleased with high license, and that the
liquor traffic is as brisk to-day as 1t was
a year ago, Does this bear out the
claims of moral reform made for high
license?
I meet with an old settler
now and then-a world-worn trav-
eler-who retains vivid recollections
of the Indian whisky of the pioneer
days. The pOetical name for the bev-
erage was Red River Delight. 1t was
compound of such strength and draw
ing qualities as would put to shame the
Montana drinks of to-day or the pro-
auctions of third-class rectifying
house. The traders among the Indians
manufactured and sold this whisky
without conjunction. The ingredients
were cheap alcohol, strychnine and
Red river water; or, as at New Ulm, i'll
stead of strychnine, plugs of poison
soaked chewing tobacco were put in,
three and four at time. This made a
drink that the Indian pinned and sighed
for. 1t is his nature to care for nothing
but the properties that madden him.
When he drinks he DIES Tres and expects
to be made temporarily insane. He
never was disappointed when he drank
Red River Delight. 1t was no uncom-
mon occurrence for him to die from an
overdose of this Hadean cOncOction.
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I watched the FOoT, SCHULZE d Co.
fire with much interest. 1t was a novel
sight to see a five-story brick block
catch on fire at the top and, despite the
efforts of the entire fire department,
burn down to the bottom. Buildings
generally burn up, but to reverse the
rule, and in daylight, and to take six
hours to do it in-what was wrong,
Chief BLACK? One of the city officials
who was at the fire told me that since
the BEAUPRE fire and the reflections
made upon the fire and water depart
ments, Insurance agents have been cut
ting down the amount of their risks
in the wholesale district. There is
trouble somewhere, but difficulty at the
present moment seems to be to decide
whether it is the fire department or the
water department that is to blame. A
loose screw in one of them has cost the
wholesale district Sl,000,000 within four
weeks, or more than the entire fire loss
in st. Paul in 1886 and 1887.
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MinnesOta's only distillery will within
six months be in operation at the South
st. Paul stock yards. 1t is to be, as
learn, very large establishments and to
bring in its train number of other
manufactures. The gentlemen who are
financially interested in the distillery
represent twenty-five million dollars i'll
capital. They propose to give the dis
tillery present capacity OF 1000 bush
els, or 10000 gallons of whisky per day.
DR.. SATTERLEE can find good food for
reflection in this statement. The still
is now being manufactured. 1t will be
one of the finest in the United States,
they say, with diameter of five and
One-half feet, a height of thirty-twO
feet, and containing thirteen chambers.
One object of the distillery will be the
feeding of stock at the Union stock
yards. In connection with it there is
planned cOOperage with capacity OF
500 barrels day, a tannery, a glucose
factory and a rectifying house. A re-
frigerating establishment is talked of as
well. This last is for the purpose of
furnishing the st. Paul hotels with beef,
which they now purchase in Chicago.
If all of these projects materialize,
South st. Paul has sweet-smelling and
prosperous future ahead.
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There is SO much of all effort made by
Republicans to convince the uninitiated
that there is harmony In the party, that
/ hasten to quote what the secretary of
the Republican state central committee
says of Gov. MCGILL and his efforts to
secure denomination. Mr.. HEATwOLE
remarks: Ever since the Republican
majority in Minnesota became large and
apparently abnormal, there has been no