St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-18
TOPICAL TALK.

acy of the Northwest. The possibili-
ties of Duluth's future are no longer
matter of conjecture. 1t is simply
question OF when the limit will be
reached. The destiny of the Zenith
City is already so apparent that even
Chicago no longer INDUCES the delusive
hope that rival lake port could not
grow up to the north OF west of it. That
which was not bigger than mans hand
in the beginning has rapidly spread
until it has overcast the sky of Chi
cago's commercial prosperity, and to-
day Duluth can snap its fin
gers right under Chicago's nose
without saying so much as "lf
you please" There is one factor enter
ing into all commercial competition
which cannot be ignored. | refer to
the advantages which nature supplies.
Last Friday afternoon stood on an emf
nence overlooking the Zenith City, an d
as my eyes drank in the wondr Gus
beauty of the scene presented by the
hill-encircled lake, fell to meditating.
And above all things else, I was i'm
pressed with the fact that when God,
with His own hand, scoops out the
foundation for a metropolis, it must
rise in His own good time. Away back
in the ages the Almighty Architect laid
here the foundations upon which city
was to be builded when the necessi-
ties of commerce required it. The full
ness of time is come; and, although
born in the travail of rldicule and fed
during helpless infancy I'm the waters
OF Marah, Duluth has attained the form
and the vigor of giant, able
and ready to carve its own way
to commercial distinction. Three
years had elapsed SIN c. former visit to
Duluth, and what changes had been
wrought in those three years! Com
mencing at East Duluth and following
the shore line around by the west end,
and on across to West Superior, the
scene reminds one of busy Eastern sea-
port. 1t is veritably the place where
the merchants come down in ships and
where the iron horse is eager to reach.
But it is not merely their commercial
advantages that the Duluth people ap-
preciate. They have recently become
impressed with the advantages their
city enjoys as a manufacturing CENTER
A new Touring mill with a capacity of
10000 bar rels day is just being COM
pleted; an iron and steel works, two
other iron manufacturing plants, an
immense car factory capable of turning
out % finished cars day and Civ
Ing employment to 1000 men, are nu m
bered among the new ill provements.
Then there is the new Spalding house.
which so eminent an authority on
hosiery as Senator ST EwART, of Ne
vada, prOnounceS the best hotel in
America; and the ne W chamber of COM
merce building, which throws the st.
Paul and Minneapolis buildings into
the shade; and new opera house that
had no defective plans, but which went
right up as fast as workmen could &C.
ment the brick and sto ne together; and
number of other ornate and massive
structures all testify to the go-ahead-
iveness of the people of the young me-
trOpolis. The railroads, too, are reaching
out for Duluth. There are so many Of
them there now it makes it a necessity
for the others to get there. All these
things contribute toward creating a
hopeful spirit among the inhabitants of
the Zenith City, so that one is not sur
prised to find so many smiling faces and
cordial greetings among people who
know their destiny and are going for it.
The California The sensational oc-
currence of the week
Tragedy. was the killing of
Judge TERRY by Dep
uty Marshal NAGLE. While there is gen.
eraI unanimity Of sentiment that earth is
we'll rid of a desperate like TERRY,
still the public mind is not altogether
comfortable over the reflection that the
department of justice can be converted
into vigilant committee to kill men
without trial. 1t is urged in behalf Of
the deputy marshal that he acted under
instructions from the attorney general,
and that the instructions were ju stifed
by the belief that Associate Justice
FIELD was in danger of bodily harm.
There is law which is supposed to pre-
vail in every state, that where person
has reason to apprehend harm from an
other he can sue out peace warrant
and have the dangerous party placed
under bonds or COMM tied to prison. It
has not yet been made clear why
Judge FIELD did not choose to
avail himself of the protection
afforded by this law, nor why it did not
occur to the attorney general that such
simple and usual process would have
fhn
eminent official to follow. the court
around in the capacity of a body-guard,
and to flash revolver whenever it be-
came necessary to make display of the
symbol of his power. On the face of it.
the whole affair looks as if the authori-
ties at Washington had an un-American
idea of how the law department of the
government should be administered.
Still, it is to Judge FIELDS credit that
he so willingly submitted to the forms
of the law when arraigned on charge
of being accessory to the kill ng. The
arrest of a supreme court justice by
township constable recalls the incident
in New Orleans court in 1872 when
Gen. JACKSON, the commander of
victorious army, voluntarily bowed his
head in the presence of district Judge
who had him arraigned ON a trivial
charge. 1t was in his case, as it is in
Judge FIELDS, sublime recognition
of the majesty of the law.
Professional An Eastern bar asto-
citation is disc ussing
Ethics. proposition to exclude
from its membership
all lawyers who take contingent fees.
Ii such rule were put into force in
most localities bar associations would
soon become barren localities. 1t is
common now, where they can get it,
for lawyers to take contingent
fee, and it is done without any
thought of violating professional
ethics. Yet old Chancellor KENT
lays it down in emphatic Ian