St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-18

does the Tribune do? 1t takes this arti-
Gle, and, changing it little to make it
more palatable to its Eastern CORES
pOndentS, sends it out broadcast over
the land as an Associated Press dis
patch. The evening of that day all the
great journals of the East had Kinney's
report of LOGO lives lost in the Dakota
blizzard. But this was not all! The
people of YanktOn, seeing this base
SANDER on their country appearing in
the Tribune, as special dispatch,
called meeting of prominent citizens,
and prepared an answer for
the Tribune to publish as a
correction. Did the Tribune publishita
Not so far as learned. Would it be any
wonder if Dakota should take it into
their heads to boycott such pig-headed
sheet as this Chicago Tribune? Would
their case not be a justifiable one?
This little incident but goes to show
the disposition of the East, to do what
it can to prejudice -
PEOPLE AGAINST DAKOTA. Fl.
In every way they try to make out
that this is an undesirable country TO
live in. AS stated at the beginning,
it really sometimes seems as ifthe whole
East was banded together. to impose
on Dakota-say nothing about the rest
OF this Northwest country. In this case
it is the strongest argument in the world
why the people of this territory should
work together unanimously and hdr-
mOniously. 1t is now time that we
cleared these cObWebS from our eyes
and laid aside all our little factional
fights, and, seeing what is the best for
our whole good. all go in as a unit to Sc
cure that. If we ever expect to be adj
mitted as state into the Union. we
low nciI L
all work on some common basis. The
question then resolves itself into this
simple deSideratum: the divisioniStS say
that the people of this territory are in
favor of division, the One-state men that
they are not; then why not leave it
either to congress to settle or else ask
that in our enabling act provision be
made for the final settlement of the
question by a decisive vote. This is
simple and a ground upon which all
ought to be able to unite and work for
admission. Let us not longer wrangle
among ourselves as to what has been
done and what has not been done, but
let us all go in and on this common
mission, and if you can do so give us a
provision by which the people can at
last decide whether they want the terri
tory to be
DIVIDED OR NOT"
This would be fair to all interests,
this would be sensible, and what is more,
if the people of this territory would
unite on just this ground and all speak
at once, they would be heard-in Vul-
gar parlance Something would be
heard to drop" Will we all pull to-
gether? 1t is a very noticeable fact
that since a full and complete eXplana-
If -,
has been made that there has been very
little said by the partisan papers about
what they called its Outrageous pro-
Visions" 1t is found that Mr.. Springer
is more of q statesman and a better
friend of Dakota than many of these
blatant politicians of uncertain stripe
who have protested their friendship so
much
The editor of the Dakota supplement-
of the st. Paul Pioneer Press is differ
ent kind of man than the tariff editor
of the Chicago Tribune, Joseph Medill.
Mr.. Medill says that he always gives
BOTH SIDES OF A QUESTION
fairly, and allows his readers to Judge
which is right and which is wrong.
This the Pioneer Press editor does not
pretend to do. In quoting one of my
articles, in the first place he takes UNI
warranted liberties in aScribing the
authorship to the editor of the Sioux
Falls Argus, and then gives only part
OF the sentences he pretends to quote,
and these so changed as to be scarcely
recognizable In comparison with the
original. This is the meanest kind of
editorial ability-tO pretend to give Ia
quotation and not give it at all. In
other words, to miSrepreSent, to lie.
And to do it i'll SpeciouS way like this
giving some OF the words of the sen
fences and leaving others Out-a total
misrepresentation of the meaning. if
not the words.
WHY THERE MAY BE DELAY.
Hon. Abe BOynton, the genial railroad
commissioner, was talking politics to
me the other day. He said: up to
about a week ago l was confident that
Dakota would get an enabling act this
session for admission as one state, but
| have lately received advices from
Washington, that are to me conclusive.
that no definite action whatever will be
taken by congress this year. The
reason for this is the uncertainty that
always attends business as well as
politics during presidential year. Tn
Dakota'S case it works something like
this: If an enabling act should be
passed by this congress it would likely
provide for the holding of constitu-
tIonal convention. say next June, and
that would further provide for the
election of state officers at the
regular fall election and the whole
machinery for state government as
soon as congress should breathe life int