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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
This Is a Free Country.

Boston Commercial Bulletin.
We have heretofore expressed strong
disapproval of trusts" meaning by
that term actual "truStS," and not mere
combinations. We have now very
clear illustration of the one central OBJ
lection to the genuine trust in the ac-
ton of the sugar trust. The following
circular has been issued, in which the
term union should be interpreted
trust" Doubtless the Well-deserved
Opprobrium attaching to the other name
leads to the substitution:
ION and after July l, 1888, New York
refners will not sell their sugars
through any broker who sells sugar for
refinerS not in the union, or who CORE
spends with broker who does. Please
inform us at once if this will affect our
relations with you. Do you sell direct,
or through a correspondent, sugars for
any refiner not in the uniOn?"
This means that to protect itself the
sugar trust must do everything in it's
power to destroy the business of those
refiners who are doing an Independent
business. The first and readiest way to
bring about this is to intimidate the
brokers, and so the above circular is is
sued.
We wonder II the sugar refiners fully
realize the intent and the tendency of
such arrogant and intOlerant action. 1t
is totally opposed to the live-and-let-live
doctrine: it proposes rather that the in
dependent refner shall join with them,
if they will let him, or go out of the
honest business of his choice. 1t means,
if carried to the logical extreme re-
sorted to by the Standard Oil Trust, the
attempted destruction or ruin of indie
pendent factories by any effectual
means. AS we have before pointed out,
the composition Of genuine trust
makes it necessary to destroy; there is
something inherently wrong in the NOR
ais of trust. 1t is un-Christian,
un-American, and the people will
not long tolerate 1t. Any man, or set of
men, in the United States, has the right
now and ever to go into the business of
sugar refining, and no man, nor set of
men, has the right to hinder in the least
other than by fair competition. Such
bulldoZing as that indicated in the
above circular should be punishable in
some way. Who knows but that the
newcomer will make sugar in cheaper
and better way. Whether he does or
not he has rights as an,American citizen
which must be maintained. The sugar
trust is taking such action as will tend
to kindle storm of such tremendous
disapproval as may cost them dearly,
for such things must not and cannot be.
This is free country.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
Make Commerce Free.

Henry Ward Beecher.
/ have said that the liberty of COM
merce is just now the battle, and one of
that series by which the victories of
civilization have been achieved, and
that we are the soldiers that are fight
ing that battle, and we have not the
slightest doubt as to what the issue
shall be. We will make commerce free
as thought. l am opposed to the over
loading of government over free peo-
pie with functions which it is not fit to
perform. If there be anything in this
world that government is not fit to per-
form, it is running the business of all
the various industries of these United
States. And yet substantially that is
just what the government does-that is.
it forms judgment upon them, and on
that Judgment forms tariff, undertake
ing to tell what is best for this. and
what is best for the other, and it all
cones through the necessity of the
devil's own juggle-protection.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
ON GETTYSBURG FIELD.
The Strange Wide-Awake Dream
That an Old Veteran Had There.

The Strange Wide-Awake Dream
That an Old Veteran Had There.
New York Mail and Express.
Il had strange experience at Gettys-
burg last summer" said veteran re-
Gently. Il was wounded there in 1868,
but had not seen the place for nearly
quarter of century. had lost this
arm before that, though 1 kept in
active service. After my first wound
all my fear was for this poor arm. | be-
lieve | dreaded death less than that |
should be hit again on that part. All
the constituencies of my nervous system
seemed centered just there. And sure
enough, at Gettysburg, caught it once
more, and four inches more were con-
trlbuted. AS you may imagine, the
sensitory nerves were not lessened
in force, nor have they been
since then. Last year l visited the
old battlefield as l said. The railroad
ride was long and warm and weari-
some. Reaching the hotel on the field
late at night, [ retired to rest, but
throughout the long hours | rode in
sorry nightmare because of fatigue and
excitement, and, of course, associations
when at daybreak | was reused
by sharp musketry firing, heavy,
continuous skirmishing. Leaping to my
feet and throwing aside the curtains,
there in the broad sunlight was the
never forgotten Gettysburg, as once so
wildly knew it, and yonder coming
through the woods was a long line of
blue. Holding tenderly my poor stump
in nervous excitement, it seemed
as If it was Gettysburg again as i'll
'63, and all the intervening years as
naught. | could not, and certainly no
one else can, describe the realism of it
all. True, the troops were Pennsyl-
vania'militia holding an early morning
drill; true, the war and its horrors long
since overpast, but all the same it
seemed as though the rush of memory
was almost real.''
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
WHY THEY FIGHT FOR 1T.

Sew York Herald.
A tariff duty is tax: and it is tax so
laid as to enable the home manufact-
urer to charge more for his product than
he could if he had to compete with
foreign producer of the same article.
If the duty did not have this effect the
''protected' capitalist would not so
strenuouly insist on it. If the high
tariff did not put money-.and great
deal of money-into the pockets of the
protected capitalists, they would not
fight for it and resist lower duties. Mr..
CARNEGIE, who advises everybody to go
coaching in his holiday, and who spends
his money IN England very freely, pock
eted S1,500.000. in one year as his per-
sonal profits Oh steel rails and beams,
which are highly protected. Mr.. CAR
NEGIE is one of the most earnest protec-
tionists in the country, and means to
vote for HARRISON and MORTON.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
A Railroad in Ireland Stolen.

An extraordinary performance is re-
ported from ireland. A whole railroad,
more than ten miles long, with a neat
station house, corrugated iron freight
house, several iron shelter sheds for
cars, all the iron rails and everything
portable, has been torn up and carried
away piecemeal by the Irish farmers"
between Portumna and Parsonstown.
A veraciouS correspondent wrieS: "a
few days ago | was driving from Por-
tumna to ParsOnstown, and when we
came to where the station stood | eX-
claimed to the driver: 'Hullo what's
become of the station and building?
'Oh, your honor, they're all stolen, and
every iron rail from this to Birr'-the
local name for Parsonstown. and
did not the police interfere?"
said l; oh, yes. the police took
then the magistrate asked where's the
prosecutor, and nobody answered, he
ordered them to be discharged, and
there was great plumber. and some of
the rails, hear, went off by the Shan
non on the steamer. What Oh earth
could the farmers do with the railS?'
ooh, bedad. they make the finest of raft
ing for lean-to outhOuSeS, and the cor
rugated iron the best roofs And as we
went along he pointed out one or two
new irOn-covered outhouseS, which, he
said. no doubt came from the railway.
asked gentleman in the train about
it. and he said he believed everybody
was afraid to claim ownership lest he
might be liable for the debts of the COM
pany! Now, sir, this may be travellers
story, for | know nothing of this rail-
way, except that old Sir Thomas Burke
told me that Lord Clanricarde had lost
S125,0OO by it, but l can vouch that the
railway station, ETC., and rails are all
gonew Perhaps similar stories will
soon come from Iowa.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
THE ECLIPSE.

"Fair Luna is coquetting with the
Earth, and in coy modesty wells her face
awhile" is what the thousands of senti-
mental young people on the streets had
to say of the eclipse last night. Others
remarked that the moon had red eye,
as the result of being out at night so
often. But the astronomers are the ones
who derived the most comfort from last
nights observations. The copper-hued
disk last night confirms the theory
quoted from the Scientific American in
our yesterdays issue that the variations
of cOloring are due to the conditions of
the earth's atmosphere, and the reason
assigned by scientists for the observa-
ton of the eclipse Of 1884 are now dem
OnStrated to be correct,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
PERsECUTRD BY BISMARCK.
German Officers Tr eat the States
mans Enemy With Courtesy.

mans Enemy With Courtesy.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
One of the best-known houses in Ger
many-perhaps in Europe-is the villa
- in Berlin belonging to - Won
B, himself at the time a personal
friend of the crown prince, a conspicu-
Gus leader in many public-spirited and
philanthropic movements, member of
the imperial parliament, but in oppOsi-
ton to Bismarck's fiscal measures.
This gentleman was the son of one
of Germany'S greatest diplomats,
had married an English lady, and found
pleasure in travel and the society of the
leading men of all nations. AS nat
ural consequence few people CT merit
passed Berlin without bringing away
agreeable recollections of this hospitable
and talented household. So long as Bis
marck's policy affected only the great
task of uniting Germany and creating
for her place among the great powers,
this gentleman was very welcome ad-
dition to all court and official func-
tipnS. The moment, however, that Bis
marck introduced measures for taxing
imports in manner calculated to favor
some industries at the expense OF others,
he found this gentleman in opposition
to him on that one point. From this
time on commenced system OF petty
persecution against him that would
have much vexed a dependent man.
The climax was supposed to have been
reached when the officers of the vari-
Gus regiments stationed in Berlin were
requested to keep away from mis- house,
and, of course, they Obeyed. He felt
keenly the blow aimed at him by Bis
IL hi
own account as on that of his family.
To show how little the individual Off
GERS SympathiZed with this cruel order
from headquarters the following will
show:
This gentleman and his family were
in Switzerland the summer following
the ''boycotting" edict and one evening
arrived at an inn, from which they were
about to be turned away because there
was no room. Suddenly three gentle
men, whom they recognized as German
officers, who formerly frequented their
house, rushed out and protested
that they should not go to any other
place; that they would make room at
any cost. These three men hustled
about and by dint of persuasion and en-
ergetlc management succeeded in get
ting comfortable quarters for them.
During their stay at this Inn the officers
were interchangeable in making it a pleas
ant one. They organized excursions and
picnicS, and showed by their manner a
most ardent desire to produce pleas
ant impression. Naturally our gentle
man was at first somewhat surprised
that officers could be rude in Berlin and
civil i'll the Alps-putting off and putting
on at will. The day before they sepa-
rated, however, one of them explained
for the rest why it was that they had alb
ruptly ceased calling at the villa. They
had been ordered from headquarters
and, of course, an officer must be an
officer before he can think of being a
gentleman.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
CHANGES OF HEART.
A Globe Announcement Confirmed
by Good Authority.


by Good Authority.
Rush City Post.
We noticed it announced a few days
since in the GLOBE that Hon. F. S.
Christensen has experienced a complete
change in his political views and has
come out boldly in favor of Cleveland
and reform. This has been known to
a few people in Chisago county for a
long time, but for certain reasons the
glad tidlngS were withheld from the
public. Mr.. Christensen has always
been an ardent Republican and was
during one term assistant secretary of
state. During the administration of
President Cleveland he has seen that
the principles of Democracy are princi-
pies of reform, and his acts and mes
sages to congress have been all in the
interest of the general public, and for
their good, and against the monopolists
and trusts. He is particularly pleased
with his demands for reduction OF
the tariff tax, and when the Republi-
cans placed in nomination man who
has voted in congress to citizenship
Chinese and allow them to ruin the
country with their coolie labor, to say
nothing OF the Republican platform of
n1gh taxes and free whisky, he with
many others, deserted their ranks. We
welcome MIR. Christensen with open
arms, and assure him he will not have
cause to regret it. John G. Carlson.
cashier of the Bank of Rush City, and
hitherto a prominent young Republi-
can, has come over to the Democratic
ranks. We are glad to meet you
Johnny. Several other prominent Re
pu6licans OF this place, and elsewhere
out for Cleveland, among whom we
might mention Casper Scheele, a strong
German Republican, of Nessel, j. F.
Star, prominent Scandinavian of Fish
Lake, and many others. The woods
will be full of them in November.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
WAS NOT "A PROHIBITIONIsT,
And So the New Jersey Rather
Wasted Its Poison on Him.

And So the New Jersey Rather
Wasted Its Poison on Him.
Philadelphia Record.
Joseph Lemon, tough and used to
hard knocks, rushed into his house at
Retreat, Burlington county, N. j., on
the Fourth and gulped down pint of
applejack without f1inching. His aston
ished family gazed at him blankly, and
his oldest child, when able to recover
breath, exclaimed:
"What do you mean by drinking so,
pop?"
ops bin bit by rattler," he gasped in
the vernacular of the Jersey pines, land
rs goin' to drowned out the pizen eff 1
kim"
Rattleshakes have been very numer-
GUS of late in the vicinity of Retreat,
and the residents of that section are be-
coming somewhat alarmed, although as
a general thing rattlesnake has no
terrors for them, and they will kill
them with no other weapon than a
club. An event, however, happened
Wednesday that has caused them to be
more fearful of these reptiles. On that
day Lemon, who is forty years old, as
tough as pine knot, and who has lived
in the pines ever since he was born,
had an experience that almost turned
his yellow hair white. He was walking
down to little spring in the woods
near the headwaters of the Rancocas,
when his attention was attracted by
peculiar noise in the bushes ahead of
him. He stopped moment, and, hear
ing nothing, advanced on the path to
the spring. Just then he heard the pc
culiar rattle of snake close beside
him. Jumping back from the path he
picked up a broken branch of pine
and awaited developments. Again he
heard the reptiles note of warning, and
Just then saw it cOiling for spring.
Quick as flash he brought down his
club. striking the snake on the head
and stretching it out lifeless. AS he
stepped forward to examine it its mate
made dash at Mr.. Lemon and fastened
its fang in his leg just below the knee.
The pain was severe, but there was no
time for lamentation, and he started off
on run for home. On reaching there
he called for whisky, and a pint of new
applejack was given.
After finishing the lightning and a
quart of grape wine he went out and
walked up an down for half an hour.
Then he went in the house and drank
tin cupful more of applejack without
any water. This put him in stupor,
and he slept soundly until Thursday
morning. He is now considered out of
danger. In telling the story in Medford
yesterday he remarked: ''If l had been
one of them Prohibitionists that rattler'd
bout finished me.''
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
THE RETIRED LIST.

No one is going to quarrel with con-
gress for placing Gen. JOHN G. Ere
MONT on the retired list of army Of
ficers, and yet there was probably more
sentiment than righteousness in the
act. Gen. FREMONT has done the coun
try some military service, but it was
done in such desultory and ineffective
way as to raise the question whether
the standard prestige of the army may
not be lowered by singing him out for
this distinction. His age and his neceS-
sites probably afford excuse enough.
The discussion of his case, however,
had the good effect of suggesting to con-
gresS the necessity for obtaining some
information about this retired list bust
ness and how much it is costing the
government. Accordingly, the United
States senate passed resolution
asking the war and navy depart
ments for estimates regarding the
cost of the retired list The reports.of
these departments disclose some inter-
esting facts relative to the various
amounts paid to retired military and
naval officers. Tie highest amount
which has been paid to any retired
officer now living is s104, GOO, received by
Gen. j. G. ROBINSON since he left the
army. Gen. SHERMAN, who was re-
tired about four years ago, has received
since then 100000 in pay and allowances.
According to the report of the navy de-
partment, Rear Admiral SEI.FRIDGE has
received more than any living retired
naval officer, the amount received by
him since 1886, the date of his retire
ment, exceeding 100000. Thus it will be
seen that the government makes liberal
provision for both its naval and military
veterans, and while the cost is consid-
cradle, there is no one disposed to grum-
BILE over it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
Tender and True.

Boston Journal.
How easily bitterness may be pro-
duced by too much sweetness was illus
trated the other day by car incident.
One little girl about five years old
leaned over the back of the seat in front
and whispered i'll the ear of small boy,
81 love you" Having no reply, she
again said, Il love YOU" "Yes,h said
the boy, "but don't say that again" 81
will,'' was the determined answer of
girl. "You WON'T" replied the boy
with equal determination, and there
upon began fast and furious quarrel,
which lasted until the girl was borne
away by her nurse, her voice sounding
shrilly down the car aisle. 81 love you,
l love you, l love you," over and over
again.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23

000-11. 900 less than BLANE's-and
TAMs BIxBY, secretary of the Republi-
can leagues of the state, places it at TO-
900. There is not very much consola-
ton in this for HALL and DUNNELL,
unless each proposes to trade off the
state ticket for votes for himself.
~
Mr.. HALL is in frequent consultation
with Maj. STRAIT, and the amount Of
attention the old warrior receives must
Hatter his soul. The major is an object
upon which the Republican machine of
the Third district has big eve focused,
and if he but wiggles an inch ''flash"
goes the orb.
ALvAH EASTMAN, of the Anoka Her
aid, and staunch Republican, has the
coueage to say that he considers the
questions addressed to ALBERT SCHEF-
FER by the Pioneer Press as insulting.
He adds that those who are trying to
force Mr.. SCHEFFER into false posi-
tion had better let him alone.
~
A poll of the soldier boys at Lake
City last week was taken on the guber-
material question. In all siXty-two
votes were cast, sixteen of them being
Democratic. OF the Republican votes
five were cast for MCGILL and the bal
ance for SCHEFFER. The Democrats all
voted for AMES.
go
The question repeatedly asked at
present is: SIS Mr. DORIAN out of state
politics?" 1t can be answered in the
negative. His establishment of a politi-
cal organ Of his own, his position as
chairman of the state central committee,
his active support of EUGENE WILSON
for governor, all indicate that he will
be lively factor in the coming state
convention. Mr.. DoRAN still lives and
kicks. Is not that enough?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
WAGES PER WEEK

According 10 lue Iued lildt lt4t[u UdrlI
makes high wages, workingmen should
get good deal more in Germany than
in England. But according to this table
they get almost exactly n per cent more
in England than they do in Germany.
The Times does not vouch for the accu-
racy of the table, but since it comes from
a good high-tarff source the defenders
of the spoliation system cannot consist
emily reject the lesson which it teaches,
that high tariff, or tariff for protection,
does not make high wages. And yet.
in the face of these figures from Maine,
we will soon see Mr.. Blaine, of Maine,
roaming up and down the land telling
workmen that it is our miraculous sys-
tenn of high-tariff taxation, and that
alone, which enables them to get higher
wages than are paid in Europe.
The truth is that high tariff does not
make high wages, and those who try to
make an American workman believe
that it is are deliberately attempting to
deceive him. They are deliberately at
tempting to induce him to vote mon
Strous taxes on himself, in common with
nine-tenths of the American people, to
the end that the other one-tenth may
roll in wealth and lord it over the mass
of their cOuntrymen.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
HIGHLY PROTECTED INDUSTRIES.
Average wages. ......

The highly protected men who saw
the highly protected lumber with highly
protected Saying machinery, it will be
seen, get S2l5 year for so doing. The
statistics for this sawed lumber indus
try are interesting in other respects.
Thus, the total amount paid in wages
was S31, S45, 900: the cost of material was
SAG, 10000; together these two items
make sl7S,000,000. The total product
was 1898, 26S,000. Substracting cost of
wages and material from the value of
product we find that S55, PCS, 900 went to
the employers or mill owners. or s24,-
100000 more than the amount paid in
wages.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
Need a microscope.
Wadena Tribune.

The Fergus Falls Journal publishes a table
showing the relative m ajority, by counties.
of the prospective vote for congress next
fall. Wadena is placed in the Republican
column with 200 majority Wadena county
never gave that majority for any Republican
candidate, except Knute Nelson, in 1884.
That year his majority was 242 On presi-
dent, the vote showed majority of only 100
for Blaine. In 1856, the Republican plural
ity, not majority. was only 81 This year the
Republican plurality will have dwindled
down to such an extent that it will require a
microscope and searchwarrant to find it,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
"A Versatile Dodger.


SI. ttUT HtFaIU.
McGill has the happy faculty of accommo-
dating himself to any circumstance. At
Presbyterian meeting, he is Presbyteri an.
When at Methodist meeting, why his
parents were of that faith. If Catholic
gathering is honored by his presence, then a
good old uncle taught him in the tenets of
that denomination. Most versatile is the
representative of st. Peters brains now at
the capitol, and if he is not successful it will
not be because he did not try
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-23
"A Four-DoIlar Stroke Needed.

New York Evening Sun.
1t is reported that the father of Car
ter, the starboard stroke of the winning
Yale boat last Friday, offered his boy
500 for every boat length. Yale beat
Harvard. The result was the payment
of 1850. By a reasonably accurate cal
culation that was about s.. 10 a stroke.
This is good tip for Harvard next
year. If they can only work up stroke
to the even value of 81 they will beat
the Yale crew as badly as they them
selves were beaten this year. But a
radically different system of coaching
must be adopted before the 81 stroke
can be acquired. 1t may come high, but
they ought to have it.