St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-25
MINNEAPOLIS,
Additional City Rews on the 5M Page.
CURRENT COMMENT.

Manager Morton is perhaps largely to
blame for the opposition which is
springing up SO plentifully i'll all quar-
tiers TO down his uptown ball park
scheme. Through ignorance Of the
characteristics of the Minneapolis crank
pr from negligence, he has failed to in
form the general public of the Flour
City regarding his intentions in the
manner of conducting the game and
grounds, and hence many of those
who oppose the location of the
grounds inside the patrol limits do
as Tor reasons which will cease 10 exist
the moment they understand the plan.
Mr.. Morton undoubtedly Intends to run
the game on higher moral and pro
fessiOnal plan than it has been con-
Quoted in this city for some years. His
motive in having a convenient location
and providing an attractive, conmodi-
Gus and comfortable grand stand is to
draw patronage from a better class of
people than those who have been at
tracted to dillapidated and uncertain
affair in an undesirable Suberb. His
special object is to get ladies and people
of the upper circles interested in the
great national game as other cities, and
every effort will be made to have all the
details SO arranged as TO make attend
ance at the games agreeable to such
people.
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The fact that he is misunderstood and
miSrepreSented is well atteSteG by the
action OF the Presbyterian ministers
who pledged themselves to combat any
attempt to play Sunday games Oh the
centrally located grounds, and also to
use all honorable means to prevent the
sale of intoXicants at the ball grounds.
They seem utterly ignorant of the fact
that the whole Minneapolis schedule
has been arranged without Sunday
games because the courts have enjOined
them from playing on the first day of
the week. They appear, also. to be
equally oblivious of the desire Of Man.
ager Morton to cater to q class of pa
trOnage that would lie driven away by
the presence OF grog-Shop attachments.
The Extensively pious young men who
compose that excellent society known
and designated as the Young Mems
Christian association, also rise ND in
their righteous indignation and petition
the city council not to allow ball
stand inside the patrol limits, as it
would greatly increase the liquor and
pool selling. The dear, meek-eyed.
nice boys don't seem to realize that pool
selling is Illegal and can be stopped by
anyone who cares to toy with his neigh
boris affairs to that extent. They, with
many others who dislike base ball be-
cause people bet OH the result of the
games, would do well to remember that
a very goodly sum of money changed
hands on the little event at the Jail on
trI11N and that UomhIinr in
shnct is by no means confined 10 cards
and sporting events.
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There is one more thing Interesting
In itself, but parti, ularly noticeable in
connection with the base ball issue in
the city council. Aid. Loye, the chief
opponent of the ball park, while assert
ing that he took the stand he did at the
request OF his constituency, said in
committee that he should oppose an
up town ball ground on account of its
immortality, anyway. On Friday last
he voted with tine irrigationiStS when
the matter of extending the wet" ter
ritory along Hennepin avenue from
Sixth to Tenth streets came up in the
council. Another amusing thing in
that certain aldermen who deemed ii a
matter Of courtesy to vote with Mr..
Love on the base ball matter. because
the proposed location of the ball ground
was in his ward. didn't find it necessary
to uphold him in the stand he took yes
terday.
The childish, juvenile debating soci-
ETY. way in which municipal daddics at
tackled the police commissioner question
was almost too tedious and silly TO be
even laughable. NoOne seemed to have
thought of The matter at all, and no one
could think of man who was fitted for
the place. At first voting was begun
without any nominations, and the eXpe-
dent of answering to the roll call with
the name of the man favored was
adopted, but soon nominations broke
loose, and each alderman nominated a
man of whom no other alderman had
ever heard, and so it went. Not rep
reSentative citizen, with the exception
of the one now in the legislature from
the Thirtieth district, was mentioned
for the place, and only one man, and he
young real estate dealer. who has any
possible qualifications for the place, was
nominated. An eStimabie old com
rade" who knows ABOUT as much about
police force or running city as Aid.
I0ye does about errors, assists and put
outs, was elected by the Grand Army
vote, and will assist the freak officials
on the board to ruin the property of the
city.
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The one crying need of Minneapolis
in the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-nine, is a
lar dOuble-back-actiOn anti-corrOSiye.
non-eXplosive tripple-eXpansiOn fool
killer that will wade around among the
people who desire to make of the great
hustle city of the Northwest vast GEM
etery of living corpses. Minneapolis is
OverStocked with prominent citizens
and wOuld-be prominent citizens. There
are too many people who came here
when the boom was on the town, made
money and got fat, or dyspeptic, as the
case may be, and now they don't care
whether any one else makes money or
not. They have got TO that age when
they sit in the sunlight of their own
memories, and devise plans for atom
ing for past ''peculiaritieS'' by making
Minneapolis a city of churches. They
want to have the blinds pulled down
and the organ played low. so that they
can spend their last hours in kind of
spiritual quiet, and die per force in the
odor of sanctity. Minneapolis has pros
pered exceedingly in the past. but it is
extremely doubtful if she will again
until these people leave for parts I'LL
known by way of a natural death, or
lose the grip they unfortunately have
on local legislation.
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No one could otherwise than regret
any short sighted legislation that should
tend to drive capital away from the
Northwest, or prevent Eastern money
kings from investing in Minnesota
property, but there are few good
reasons for believing that the proposed
usury law would, if passed, have that
effect to any appreciable extent. A