St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-24
TOPICAL TALK.

There is quite an animated fight in
progress between the union depot COM
pany on the one side and hotel runners
on the other, growing out of the late
contest for right of space in front of
the depot. The union depot company
propose to follow up their recent victory
with an attempt to drive the hotel run
ners from the streets by asking the city
council to revoke the license nuisance.
There are unquestionably two sides to
this controversy, and council should
give each respectful hearing. Stran-
| gers coming to the city without any
knowledge of our hotel accommoda-
tions, and without any definite idea of
where to find rest Oh arrival here,
probably hail the hotel runners as
angels of mercy. But the average St.
Paul citizen, who knows where he is
going when he steps from the train,
has the short period of life embraced in
his walk from the depot to Third street
made quite burthensome to him by the
army of energetic porterS who insist
upon prOclaiming to him the virtues of
their several hostelries. Still, the Gus
tom of hotel running is quite common
in the cities, but we do not know any
place that it is carried to such an ex-
treme as right here in st. Paul, unless
it be Washington city.
TIT
By the way, while the union depot
company is before the city council ask
ing for the eXtinguishment of the hotel
running nuisance, might it not be in
| order for our city fathers to gather from
the company some information about
the building of those depot sheds that
were promised in the sweet long ago?
Of course, have no idea that the city
| government has an intention of enforc-
ing the contract whereby the union
depot company obligated itself to build
the sheds; but | do think that,as a mat
| ter of decent treatment to the contract
itself, the document should be taken
down from its pigeonhole and busted
| once in a while. 4y
+ The race problem isn't supposed to
cut much of a figure in this latitude;
therefore 1 am surprised that Elder
GRAY does not hold higher position in
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keeper to the gallery. Elder GRAY is
an ex-senator himself, having served
for nine years in the upper branch of
the Mississippi legislature: and, al
though his skin is darker than
| the faces of the members of
the Minnesota state senate, there are
very few of them who surpass him In
intelligence, and still fewer who equal
him in the elegance of his manners.
| The inconsistency of human nature is
| something phenomenal. There is prob
ably not Republican member of the
Minnesota state senate who would not
enthusiastically vote for a resolution
cOndemning the white people of Mis-
sissippi for withholding office from the
negro, and yet when 1t comes to giving
it to him themselves, they dole it most
grudgingly.
Cardinal GIBBONS has taken occasion
to speak on the subject of divorce, and
to lay down the exact Catholic teaching
| respecting the matter. An expression
! of his opinions was called forth by the
publication of pastoral issued by
Bishop HEALY, of Maine, to the
churches in his diocese, excluding from
the sacrament any man or woman living
| apart from wife or husband. Cardinal
| GIBBONS says: 1.-THE church holds that
under certain circumstances separation
| may be necessary, but in no case does it
sanction a divorce. implying the right
| to remarriage. No man and no legisla-
| tion can validly dissolve the marriage
contract. MARK, LUKE, and PAUL all
fatty forbid divorce yinculo. The
law OF the Catholic church is inflexible
| Pope CLEMENT VII. refused to sanction
HENRYVIII.'s IS divorce fromC CATHERINE,
and England was lost to the church.
You may shrink from the rigor of the
Catholic teaching, but surely it is mer-
ciful beside the cruel consequences of
| the indiscriminate divorces we see now
adays. The remarriage of divorced
Catholic during his partners lifetime
necessarily involves his being put with
out the pale of the church. But L
should hesitate to go so far as to refuse
the sacraments to Catholic who had
merely obtained divorce" a.
Il Il i1f
A gentleman vino recently called on
Cardinal GIBBONS, at his home in Balti-
more, says that he was struck with the
simplicity of the domlcile occupied by
the eminent prelate. 1t is a square,
gray building, presenting plain eX-
terror, with few gaunt windows to let
+ in the light and an ugly doorway ap-
preached by a flight of wooden steps!
"After wa iting moment in the bare
and unassuming hall of what is called
the residence" he says: Il was ush-
cred up flight of stairs into the parlor.
1t had Roman look, with its cold walks,
its crucifiX and itssaustere decorationss
few engravings and photographs "a
slender store of books arranged on the
table; the usual crimson chairs and
footsteels, with couple of arm chairs
for the cardinal and his guest. And
that was all. / wonder what some of
our Protestant bishops would say to
such simplicity"
MY LOVE.
Like the rose is the blush on her varying