St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-06

dropped fairness all along his political
pathway. lStill, it would not be wise for
any Democrat to vote for him in the an
ticipation that he will return to his
early love. Mr.. HARDEN is much
ADLER and more capable man, and de-
serves the vote of every Democrat and
friend of reduced taxation in Dakota.
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The fact that the price of wheat has
gone up above anticipation enables those
who are fortunate enough to have good
crop to hold a large part of it. They find
that by selling off half their crop they
have as much money, or nearly, as they
expected to have for the whole of it.
There are very few of those who have
any large amount that will not hold on
to as much as they can conveniently, to
get the big prices they are confident
will come before another crop comes in.
1t will be pretty safe, evidently, to hold
good deal of the best grades for seed.
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In refutal of an intimation by GLOBE
correspondent that w. III. LYON, an
agricultural statesman who farms from
a law office in Sioux Falls, is not
hOrny-handed son of toll, the statement
is produced that when a resident of
Iowa he extracted the lacteal fluid from
nineteen cows one morning before
breakfast. That should at least entitle
him to the credit of being equal in one
department of effort to nineteen calves.
One of the points made by the local
option advocates in the North last year
was that by cutting off their liquid
rations tramps would seek less arid
routes, and the gangs of men who visit
that region to work in harvest would
not make a pandemonium of the towns
where they congregate. The experience
this year does not furnish any facts in
support of that theory. All the towns
are infested with these. undesirable
visitors, and last week murder was
perpetrated at HiIIsbOrO in connection
with these gangs, and the county will
be put to heavy expense in the matter.
Possibly it may be alleged that blind
pigs have much of the attractive power
of the open saloon. Tramps do not gen
orally dispense much wealth anywhere,
and are not likely to be deferred by the
absence of easy liquor bars. 1t is no.
ticed that they are the least partial to
towns where ample employment of the
compulsory sort is furnished them.
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Among the curious mixtures of the
campaign is that in the Sioux Falls leg
iSlative district. 1t seems that the al
lance element got possession of the Re-
publican county convention, and as a
sequence, of the legislative body, and
nominated for the council C. A. SOBER
BERG, the secretary of the territorial
alliance. He is man of fine capacity,
of Republican antecedents, but publicly
and strongly committed to the alliance
platform, which is substantially in ac-
cord with that of the Democrats; also to
the support of Mr.. HARDEN. The ed
itOr of the Argus, the Democratic organ,
is the nominee of his party, and states
in his paper that there is entire agree
ment between him and Mr.. SODERBERG
on political questions, and that it lis
now only choice between two Demo-
Gratis" If strictly correct, that is not a
very prudent statement to put forth to
an agricultural community. There is a
large boiling element with the Repub-
licans. who will probably have out an
Independent candidate.
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A prominent Sioux Falls clergyman,
who had been invited to deliver Pro-
hibition discourse before the w. G. T.
U. Sunday night, shocked many of the
good people by preferring high license to
prohibition. As a theory, he was for
total exclusion, but, as local option had
had years trial in Sioux Falls and
proved a failure, he preferred the
licensed saloon. He found that Iowa
cities had more saloons now than before
prohibition. In his opinion, it was I'M
wise to enact laws that did not have
popular sentiment and nerve behind
them to insure their enforcement. As
this question is to be voted on again in
most of the counties this fall, it is well
for the voters to look at it in all its as
poets. The legislature will be asked to
take out the local option feature and
spread the law over all the counties. 1t
is conceded that the blind pig is not
desirable Institution for fixity in any
community.