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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
WILL CHANGE BASE.

In an article entitled 'sHysteria of
Sectional Agitation" published in the
current number of The Forum, HENRY
WATTERsoN makes prediction rela-
tive to the change of politics in the
South which merits attention. The ar
ticle in question is criticism of that
section of the Republican press of
which Mr.. HALsTEAD's paper is type,
which takes its key from speech de-
livered by MI. BLAINE just after his de-
feat in 1884. The article is written in
Mr.. WATTERsoN's usual caustic style,
and is scorching rebuke to the class
of sectional agitators represented by Mr..
HALSTEAD.
Mr.. WATTERsoN's prophecy is that
after the Republican party is beaten in
the next national election it will go to
pieces, and be reformed on the lines of
protection and prohibition. This will
split the South wide open. According
to Mr.. WATTERsoN's diagnosis of the
political situation in the South as it will
then exist, the blacks will be arrayed to
man against prohibition, and the
whites will be divided by protection.
Then, he predicts, we shall see such a
party struggle for possession of the
Southern states as was never known be-
fore. and that Mr.. HALSTEAD and the
Red Republican press will be urging
the Republican party to apply to the
blacks the identical policy OF repression
they now urge it to apply to the whites
of the South.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
MONTANA RESERVES.

Those energetic Montana men, Messrs.
TooLE and MAGINNIs, have done an
exceedingly good thing in securing
favorable consideration on the part of
the senate of the bill to open up the
Northern Montana Indian reservations,
whereby II, 000, 600 acres, much of it good
agricultural land, will be thrown open
to settlement. The people of Montana,
who ought to be the best judges as to
the advisability of the movement, are
enthusiastically in favor of it.
This arises from the fact that while
Montana is comparatively sparsely
settled, still all of the available agri-
cultural land has long since been taken
up. Though her mineral wealth is her
greatest resource, its development has
been materially hampered by the fact
that there has not been large enough
farming population to render the ter
ritOry Independent of outside sources of
food supplies. Without the opening of
the reservations any increase in the
farming population is almost beyond
question.
l. llC SCdSUI vi liuiIllS IdIlOu Is uOW
opening, and Montana rightfully feels
that she should be enabled to offer in
ducements to fair proportion of the
immigrants who will soon flock in hum
dreds to the Northwest to find homes
within her borders. This is all the
more important in view of the fact that
the available farming lands yet to be
had in Dakota are fast decreasing. The
movement to open the Northern reser-
vations for the benefit of the farmers
and cattlemen should be followed with
out delay by an effort to throw the
great Crow reservation in Southern
Montana open also.
The settlers need these lands, and the
Indians do not. That expresses the sit
uation in nutshell. With this view of
the case presented clearly to congress
there ought not to be any difficulty in
securing the favorable action desired.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
FIREMEN INJURED.
Several Badly Hurt and One Man
Probably Burnt to Death.

CHICAGO, March 3O.-The fire which
started early this morning in the five
story block, corner of Lake and Peoria
streets. gave the firemen great trouble
before it was finally subdued. The huge
structure was filled with inflammable
material, and as soon as the flames
gained Roadway there was no stopping
them. Soon after 2 O'Clock the fire
spread to couple of residences west of
the burning block, and soon after row
of wooden tenementS across the street
began to blaze. The families in all of
these houses had to move out very
suddenly, and were able to save
but little furniture. 1t is believed
one man was burned to death in
the cottage next to the factory. While
the fire was raging fiercest large sec
ton of the Lake street wall of the burn
ing building fell out, and two or three
firemen were quite seriously injured.
Just before this Marshal Murphy, with
thirteen men, who were preparing to
leave the fourth floor, where they had
been working, were knocked down and
badly bruised by a terrific explosion of
hot air. They had hardly got out be-
fore the floors fell to the basement. The
fire was the most stubborn one which
the firemen have encountered for long
time, and the thirty-twO engines which
were called after its outbreak all re-
NAMED hard at work until o'clock this
morning. The losses on the building
and to the occupants will aggregate
100000. Davis q Rankin, dairy sup
plies; the Zimmerman Refrigerator
company, Linn, Weaver & Co., tinware,
and the Goss Printing Press company
are the principal losers. The insurance
is small
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
AN INSTANCE.

ISABELLA BLANCHE SINGER, the
daughter of the man who cleared S13,-
100000 on his protected sewing ma
chimes, is about to marry the Due de
Cazes, and by the marriage settlement
which has been arranged, Miss SINGER
is to pay her espoused husband the sum
of 81, 1886, 675 for the privilege of sharing
his title of nobility.
Miss SINGERS money is her own, and
if she chooses to fool it away in that
style, it is nobody else's business. But
it should not be forgotten that the
money which this foolish Amer
lean girl is squandering on a titled
foreigner was wrung from toiling
American sewing women as Tribute to
the monopoly her daddy had under our
laws.
All the time that SINGERS patent was
in force here and our American women
were compelled under our patent laws
- contribute to the colossal fortune the
old man piled up to enable his daughters
10 buy dukes for husbands, the sewing
machines were being sold to the English
at the low figures they are now being
i4ught for in this country.
1t is all right to encourage inventive
genius, but it is all wrong to permit our
tent laws to be converted into engines
' '5bery.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
GEORGES PLATFORM.

Whatever HENRY GEORGES ideas of
political economy may be, there is no
doubt at all but that he has finally
found a political platform upon which
he can stand himself and safely invite
his followers to stand with him in the
expectation of receiving public APP
ploval. That platform is the EN-
phatic endorsement of President CLEvE-
LAND and the abolition of ruinous
tariff taxes.
1t may be difficult, impossible if you
like, to agree with the Georgian idea as
to the rights of property and land
tenure, but the majority of the voters
in the country Will have no trouble at
all in subscribing so this simple propo-
sition which formulates GEORGES
present political creed. He further
announces that he not only disapproves
of the alleged GEORGE convention to be
held in Chicago by his followers for the
purpose of nominating separate presi-
Dental ticket, but that he will refrain
from attending it and will do every
thing in his power to bring about the
It-GICCUlOll VI L ICoiUChG SlIE E14aNOs
And why?
Simply because, as an honest and
earnest advocate of the welfare of the
people, Mr.. GEORGE cannot do other
wise than acknowledge that the best in
terests of the masses as opposed to the
interests of the monopolists have been
subserved by the election of CLEvE-
LAND, and will continue to be promoted
by his retention in Office. He has been
the president of the people, not the
president of the politicians and monopo-
lists.
Representing, as he does, section of
the people particularly liable to monop-
olistic and corporate aggression, it
would have been impossible for Mr..
GEORGE not to recognize the services
of the president in behalf of his follow
ers, as we'll as of the people generally.
Recognizing them, the logical conclu-
sion which leads to his declared inten-
ton of supporting the CLEVELAND can
didacy next fall was inevitable. Let us
hope that such clearness of vision may
always be his.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
Lottery OF q Wager.

Irish Weekly Times.
There are cases in which the odds
against an event are few. In others
there is only one chance in many thou
sands of millions. At of the London
clubs bet of $1,000 against shilling
was laid and taken that three skies
would not he thrown with the dice
twelve times in succession. Eleven
times this father rare combination was
effected. Then the stalker of the 81, 900
offered e7O0 to be let off. But the
thrower refused, took his twelfth
chance, lost, and paid his shilling. The
chances at starting against the bet being
won were to be counted by millions,
rather than by the 10000 to 1 offered.
But when one throw only remained the
odds were reduced to merely those
against any single case of treble skies.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
THE PEDANTIC ENGLISH.
They Try to Instruct American
as tn the Derivation of blizzard

luey LEY 10 INSTRUCT hIncfICdnS
as to the Derivation of Blizzard.
Englishmen-particularly learned En-
glishmen-are never so funny as when
didactic. Our blizzard having found its
way to London, back comes SWifter
telegram chOck full of etymology.
Whatever the English wise men may not
know about blizzard, the thing-even a
blizzard being weak and nervelesS
phenomenon after an ocean vOyage-iS
amply atoned for by what they know
about blizzard, the word. 1t comes
from the German, blitZ, lightning, says
one, and another says MAY / be biz
Zered" is common English oath. With
all due respect to these authorities, we
beg to remark that blizzard is not
swear word, nor has it any distinctive
reference to electrical storms. The
English may rob us of so much of this
particular variety of weather as they
have any use for, but not without pro-
test will Americans submit to be plumb
cred piecemeal of any portion of that
faculty of picturesque elOquence which
has enriched Americanese with biz
zard. The word is simply bit of
OnOmatop9ia. Like the hoof-beats in
VirgiPS poetry-every schoolboy has
CduOC lllC lluC-tHC NOIu 10
supposed to sound more OF less like the
thing it denotes.
Blizzard was first used by thoselwho
first experienced it while settling the
Western plains. 1t was probably first put
into print in the Northern Vindicator,
of Estherville, To-, and its editor attrib-
uted it to a local George Francis Train,
known as Lightning Ellis" because of
his amazing slowness. This anecdotal
theory having been printed in the Times
as the word came eastward into wider
publicity, a correspondent favored us
with his recollection that the word was
born in Wisconsin in 184S. Inasmuch
as we have philologists of our own, none
of whom has retOrted upon sundry biz
yards by unkind inquiries into their
family history, no mere English word
carpenter can rob US of our inventions
by illusions to Dutch thunderstorms
aud Yorkshire oaths, themselves of I'M
explained origin and unfathomed mean
ing. Until bereft of our own or better
authority the American theory of the
American term for an American storm
will hold ifs own
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
A Fool and a Gun.

TRENTON, Mo-, March 3d.. W. Hill,
wealthy contractor of this place, shot
and killed by accident Miss Sarah
Brown. daughter of A. L. Brown. The
Browns and Hills are neighbors, and
last evening Miss Brown went to spend
the evening with Miss Eva Hill, the
eldest daughter of the Hill family. She
had been there about thirty minutes
when Hill came in. He carried a shot
gun in his hand, which he had borrowed
from neighbor with the intention of
going hunting. He was accompanied
by his aged father, and when he en-
tered he pIayfully pointed the gun at
Miss Brown, but no sooner had he done
so than it went off. The contents tore
through the right hand of Miss Brown
and entered her right side. She lived
short time only, but fully exOnerated
Hill from blame. She was the only
daughter and her parents are crazed
with grief,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
The Gettysburg Reunion.

New YORK, March 30.-The arrange
ments for the reunion of the survivors
of the Army of the Potomac with the
survivors of the Army of North Vir-
ginia are progressing satisfactorily.
Hon. George William Curtis will de-
liver the Grafton, George Parsons
Lathrop the poem, and Bishop HOratio
Potter. of New York, the address of
welcome. Some distinguished Con-
federate will be selected to make the
reply to the address of welcome. The
reunion will be on the LIST, I'd and Sd of
July next, at Gettysburg, and will con-
clude with grand banquet. President
Cleveland, Gen. Sherman, Gen. Sheri-
dan and many other distinguished
officers on both sides of the contest will
be present.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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The growth Of cities in Minnesota
has not been so great that the vote and
political influence of the farmer are
overshadowed by them. As in the past,
the vote of the tiller of the soil will de-
eide what the states government shall
be for the next two years. In view of
this, it is not asking too much of the
agriculturist to pay close attention to
the various candidates soliciting his
support for their election to the gov
ernorship.
The office of governor has not yet be-
come wholly degraded, although the ac-
ton of the present executive and some
of his predecessors might make it ap-
pear so. When the Office was created
in this state (and the farmers had a
large voice in that creation) it was in
tended that the governor should be a
man above partisan spirit, of unstained
character and fearless courage. He was
to stand as the representative of the
people, checking legislative extrava-
gance, encouraging official economy,
preserving the judiciary from political
influence. His functions were to be
those of a guardian-acting for all the
people-not for one faction or party
alone. AS the appointing power, he
was to supply the offices beneath his own
with qualified citizens, and not beStow
them upon Tom, DICK and HARRY as a
reward for political service.
Such governor would be near to the
people, and by the business of his ac-
lions command. without an appeal to
their prejudices, the united vote of the
farmers of this state. When a candi-
date for governor who, by his private
and public life has given proof that he
adheres to these principles, solicits the
vote of the farmer, he should be given
it. He should be made, in every sense
of that term. a farmers candidate.
1t is not out of place at this time to
call the attention of the farmer to the
fact that by the test of this standard
Messrs. MERRIAM, MCGILL, BRADEN
and others of the Republican fold are
found to be wanting. The most rigid ex-
animation of their claims to Office fails to
show anything that might make them
governors approaching the character of
such a one as is here described. The
political character of MCGILL's appoint
ments, and his failure to check legislat-
i've extravaganza; the corporate wealth
behind Mr.. MERRIAM, and his we'll
known affiliations with the capitalistic
interests of the state; the system of
perpetual officeholding which Mr.. BRA
DEN seems to have inaugurated, and the
war issues that would be made the
basis of his campaign, brand the trio as
anything but popular candidates.
The election of any one of these three
would mean the continuation at the
state capitol of the present system of
public Office as a private trust, to be
used at any cost to advance interests in
imical to good government, reduced tax
alton and the welfare of the farmer.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
CAPT. SW DER'S
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The Great State of Texas---Its Adj
vantages, Size and Resources.
Fort Worth Gazette.
The area OF Texas is more than equal
to the area of all the New England
states, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Illinois, New Jersey and Delaware COM
bined.
Texas contains moae than four times
the area of all the New England states.
Texas would make 241 states as large
as Rhode Island, or nearly six states as
large as New York or nearly nine states
as large as South Carolina, or nearly
seven kingdoms as large as Portugal.
Texas is as large as Great Britain and
Ireland, Turkey in Europe, Portugal,
Greece and Switzerland combined.
Texas would make more than three
states as large as Kansas.
Texas is as large as the German en-
pire and Alabama combined.
The land in actual use for growing
Indian corn, wheat, hay, oats and cot
ton in the United States now consists of
272,50 square miles, OF little more
than the area of Texas.
The entire wheat crop of the
United States could be grown on wheat
land of the best quality selected from
that part of Texas by which the state
exceeds the area of the German empire"
The worlds present supply of cot
ton could be grow, nupon an area eqnal
to only Z per cent of the area of Texas.
The man does not live who can COM
pute the possibilities of this grand EN-
pire, and the probability now is that,
after the census of A. d. 1000, Texas
will have greater number of congress
men than any state in the American
Union.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
Chips From the Ties.

The Butte Mont, board Of trade has
adopted resolutions protesting against the
discrimination of the railroads against that
Northern Pacific make a materially lower
rate from Helena, Mont, than the Union Pa
cffic makes from Butte The Butte mer-
chants claim that the distances from Butte 10
81. Paul is the same as from Helena, and the
two cities supply tine same territory. As it is
the Helena merchants do all the business.
They threaten to take the matter before ne
interstate commission if the Union Pae1hce
persists in its policy.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul road yesterday
notified all its agents not to receive perish
able freight or live stock for Chicago, or for
points on that road that cannot be reached
without passing through Chicago.
At Bismarck the water rose little yester-
day. and the Ice is firm. At Sioux City the
ice has all gone out OF the river, and the ferry
was running regularly.
The Manitoba will have the Browns VALLEY
road opened in day or two.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
IN The RAILWAY WORLD.
Another Effort to Unite the Two Bur.
ingtOns.
BUNTING AND BANNERS.
Great Celebration at Denver---The Chi,
cago & Grand Trunk Will
Reduce Rates.

The information is coming from Bos-
ton that another effort is being made to
unite in one company or organization
the Chicago, Burlington IL Quincy and
the Burlington & Northern. 1t is now
nearly year ago that a vigorous effort
in this direction was made, but nothing
was accomplished. AT that time COM
mitteeS representing both companies
were appointed with view of arrang-
ing terms under which the union could
be accomplished, but as the members of
the committee could not agree upon the
price to be paid for controlling in
Teresa IN the outstanding stock
negotiatIons were dropped for the
time. 1t was stated that the Bur-
Hngton & Northern holders asked a
bigger price for the stock than the Bur-
lngton d Quincy people were willing
TO pay. AT that time the Burlington &
Quincy people were anxious for peace,
Wnlle the burlington d Northern were
clamoring to be allowed to assume an
independent policy, and the statement
was put forth, and never contradicted,
that compromise was arrived at where
by the Burlington & Northern consented
TO submit Itself to the control of the
burlington in the matter of rates to the
Northwest, for which, and to be COM
penSated for any loss it might sustain,
1t was to be allowed monthly subsidy.
IhlS arrangement continued up to the
last OF the year, and was not satisfactory
to either party, and was finally abro-
gated by the Burlington withdrawing
the subsidy, and the Burlington q
Northern thereon declaring its indie
pendence.
1t has been claimed by railway officials
In the West that matters would be much
simplified if the consolidation should
take place and the Burlington 81 North
ern could be operated as a part of the
Burlington system. AS an independent
road seeking to earn its fixed charges
and make a profit for its owners its com
petition has been and must continue to
be disturbing element, which would
be to great degree removed if it lost
Its autonomy, and for this reason there
has been hope that the consolidation
would be speedily accomplished.
The capital stock of the Burlington 81
Northern is S9.000,O00, of which the Bur-
Hngton holds $1,000, 900. The Burlington
guarantees for twenty yeaIs One-half of
net earnings derived from traffic over its
road, the amount to be not less than
100000 per annum, to be devoted to pur-
chase or withdrawal at los of the first
mortgage bonds, which shall be eX-
changed at par for stock. By this proc
eSS i'll time the Burlington would come
into possession of large amount of
stock.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31

TIE death in Plattsburg, N. Y, yes.
terday, of Hon. w. E. SMITH, formerly
assistant secretary of the treasury, and
lately solicitor of the Manitoba railroad,
will be learned in this city with great
regret by the many friends made by
Mr.. SMITH during his brief residence
here. He was young man of rare
personal qualities, companionable to
degree and of extraordinary ability. To
shim much of the credit for Democratic
success in the last presidential cam
paign is due; and his energy and counsel
will be sadly missed in the coming con-
test. He seems to have fallen victim
to that very prevalent malady, over
work, and his demise at the early age of
thirty-six teaches a lesson to other men
of super-abundant energy which, expe-
rience has shown, is more likely to be
disregarded than taken to heart.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
The Classical Languages.

The Forum.
The study of these languages for
brief period has wonderful power to
give the pupil insight into the strands
of his civilization. 1t is not the ability
to read and write these ''dead" langua-
ges that is to be priced as result of
classical study. 1t is. known that the
pupil puts ON the spiritual clothing of
those people in reading and writing
their language, and thus lives over their
lives and acquires their methods of
looking at the world. This gives the
scholar the ability to understand, with
out tedious investigation, these elements
in our deriyative civilization. Enlight-
ened biologists study the embryology of
an animal in order to comprehend it
scientifically. Our higher education
likewise insists ON the preparation of
cultured youth by study of the embry
ofegy of his civilization.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
Passenoer Rates Reduced.

CHICAGO, March 30.-The Chicago &c
Grand Trunk, in retaliation for the
action of the Michigan Central in cut
ting rates to Montreal and Canada
points, has notified that company that it
Will reduce local passenger rates to all
of the principal Michigan local stations.
The cuts to Niles, Kalamazoo, Lansing
and Battle Greek range from S1.50 to 81.
The Michigan Central, in retaliation,
will make slash in the rates to Toronto,
Montreal and all other points common
to the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pa
cific. The through rate to Buffalo is
also reduced 80 cents by making the rate
from Chicago to Detroit $3.50.