St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23


NIZAJ2lA'.zI~L--GH' Joy the police in this
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NfaLLLlRk 81 Northwest, there are
HSl7aY@ls>4gET~ R3ao.7Islaves innumcrable
ED4LLL..4yaEI " in our midst. THIS
kZ5s5%7tI/A lHl, fact would, were it
IMILIlIY5t5A JVI we'll known in the
lIW////HHtpAItI East, reverse HOr-
IW///W4lt1NI ace Grceiy's ad-
if"'E HN vice of $50 West.
Young man" The only excuse to be
found for the existing state OF affairs, is
the fact that the Great Northwest has
not yet been licked into shape; that the
almighty dollar is the allabSOrbing idea
at present. and that morals, manners,
culture aud refinement Will have their
day in the not very distant future.
The police regulations Of Minneapolis
expressly stipulate (RuIe XVIII: "Ie
NAV also examine any person whom he
may see walking abroad in the night
after 10 o'clock whom he shall
have reason to suspect OF any
unlawful design. This
authority must be exercised with great
caution" We all know how much eau
ton is exercised in this regard. Again,
iu arrests for miSdemeanOrS a patrol
man may arrest man for drunken
ness in public yiew," when nobody but
the patrolman and the inebriate be
present; the arrest would consequently
be illegal. SO in my case. Again, who
is to determine and legally define
drunk" Is it the policeman.
the prisoner, or whom? What
redress can man have who
has been arrested by the police on mo-
tives Of caprice, within, or malice? Is
there any? In the School of Instruc-
ton" | fancy see nice moral-loOking
policeman answering the question:
"What relation does policeman bear
toward the community at larger"
Ale is a servant of the people,
from whom cm-a-nates the power that
creates him. Every person should
receive at his hands, projection and
kind treatment"
But as to the justice or injustice Of
my arrest and sentence | will say moth
ing here; but proceed to give the UNI
initiated peep into the WOrkhouSe. /
have no dark secrets to disclose, but
plain uIYarnshed story, which. besides
giving me an hours pleasant occupa
ton, may also prove acceptable reading
TO the majority OF the GLOBE readers.
CHAPTER lI-CRUELLY ARRESTED.
| had been ia town but an hour, walk
ing round taking the town in. as we'll as
Il few glasses OF genuine old Milwaukee,
when in a side street | found a lodging
place, paid for my lodging, and pro-
Ceeded ont again on further tour
of inspection. Lower down the same
street, in quiet part, an active and
intelligent" policeman grabbed me,
asked mC about twenty-five questions,
and ran me in. | had been drinking
beer It's true, aud pity It's, It's true"
but be 1t understood | knew how 10 be-
have myself, walked as straight and
firm as Il cavahYman, and spoke no
unciYil word to amy man. ! WAS merely
lost in the acknowledgements. muSing on
the mutapiltics of life in the great
Northwest" and muttering: "FaciliS
deScenSus aVCrni; sed reVocare gradum,
HE opus, hoe labor est" Anglice: 1t
is easy to get down to Minneapolis;
but to get q position is the trick 4
am of the mental temperament, ami
these distractions are frequent with me,
but | never lean against the wall to
think" as Mark Twan's horse did
Well, in | went, and as there was
nothing 60 inspect i'll my dormitory,
sank into a sweet oblivion. Ia the
morning. | drCamt was in Boston writ
ing books, but Il Weakened with a sud
den Scrim, and found that it was but a
drim" The cooler is a stronghold Of
iron network, such as the anarchists
who were recently executed are pictured
as having been incarcerated in A
motley group we were when liberated
to march into the SanctLm of justice
(Sic). A well dressed gentleman
in deep ,remorse, with bag of
gold and $50 overcOat a
Woodman, all bruises and scratches,
who had blown himself" TO the tune of
$50, and lost his turkey" ii. e. his
clothCs-Dag,) curSing the internal
whisky. as though ii had drank him. in
stead of Yice-VerSa-a poor, henpecked-
looking SWcdc, who spoke no word of
English deg pardon. | mean United
States, and evidently thought he was
about So be hanged-an old veteran of
the &. y. r., Teuton, who spout his
time in smoking and silent meditation,
like the great Herr TeufelSdrOcN-aud
your humble servant, whose philosophy
bore him up, and who was keenly and
quietly observing the little things about
him, and rejecting thereon. Ten
pyson asks: do we move our
selves. or are moved by an unseen
hand at a game?' and as | unwaver-
jngly believe in the unseen hand''
theory, | considered ii a move for my
education and general benefit. and per
hapS some thousands through me at
some future period. The turnkey is a
sleek Oid man, whom Eliza Cook would
DESERT as better fed than taught"
with a mp manner TO all prisoners, who
showed familiar confidence for those
with money and curt contempt for the
impecuniouS. The captain is an i'm
maculatc person. with n strut on him
like the kings of old, of the genus dude,
who has the popular Christian pen
chant, TO him that hath shall be
given, and from him that hath moth
ing shall be taken even that which
no hath or is likely to get. A prisoner
III the WorkhOuSe informed me that he
saw him supply three half-pint bottles
of whisky to three men in the cooler at
81 per bottle, and refused my informant
tue privilege of walking about when
deathly sick.
CHAPTER IlI-A HARD-HEARTED JUDGE.
The sedes justitia need not describe,
as they haven't yet denied the public
access thereto. His honor is a quiet,
tall young man, with a fine phrenolog-
zeal development, but as pernicketty
as a Sunday school superintendent
He goes through the prescribed form,
but trial there is none; for he doesn't
take knowledge as the basis of belief,
nor consider critically the suggestions OF
belief as 10 action; but works like an
autOmaton, coming to precisely the
same conclusion i'll case after case, en-
tirely and materially different from each
other. Allow me TO give MIR. Mahoney
some advice gratis: You are bound Il
give your belief free play in every case
before you sentence, and you must
never pretend to believe on insufficient
evidence. "However convinced you
may be of the truth of your convictions,
you ought not to make public stigma
anv mans until Won pN.