St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-20

Aliens livery stable. They were hustled
back. and are now languiShing in the
dungeon, instead of the light, airy cell
they occupied before their flight.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The city of St. Paul loses more than a
citizen in the death of S. S. Taylor His
was nature as near akin to that OF
Abraham Lincoln as was possible, con.
sidering their difference of religious.
opinion. The same kindly. jovlal, an.
ecdotal spirit; neither of them hand
some and not always regardful of per-
sonal appearance. There was the same
eli rectnesS and fearlessness of spirit in
each; not lack of modesty, but abso-
lutte firmness when justice was due.
Neither had reached the Sublimity of
perfection when death o'ertook. them.
but utter fearlessnesS in the pursuance
OF right characterized our own modest
citizen as in the case of the martyred
president. AS millions believed Presi-
dent Lincoln'S every word, so, also, did
the thousands of school children in st.
Paul strive for handclaSp from their
superintendent, and hung upon the
words from his lips as something to be
forever remembered and cherished. His
was quiet, restful spirit, and publicly
his mind always in equipose. Yet there
were times when internal disSensions in
the educational board and petty jeal-
ousieS among teachers sorely tried him,
and at such times he worked early and
late, never falling to produce harmony.
lie was man among men, and but for
the reflection that he deserved his re-
ward, we could hardly feel that his sud-
den taking Off was in accordance with
the eternal fitness of things.
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Here's an item that may be of interest
to Northwestern readers, but which I
have had no opportunity to verify, as
Mr.. Power has not yet reached st. Paul
on his homeward trip. The Gossiper of
the Chicago Times is responsible:
"There goes one of the most prominent
and wealthy men in Montana" said a
well-known politician at the Grand
Pacific last evening. pointing to short,
thick-set man who was calmly pulling
the ends of his stubby brown mustache
as he walked across the floor. He was
}. S. Power, who was associated with
his brother, f. G. Power. in the profit
able freighting business in the palmy
days of Montana. Mr.. Power comes
from Washington, where the Montana
delegation has been doing some tall
hustling the few days past. II guess
everything is all right now" he said
last evening. land l.. II. Hirshfield, a
prominent banker of Helena, will be
our next governor. Mr.. Saunders will
be one of our senators. l can't name
the other" The speaker blushed at
the last remark, for he will gamble that
his brother will be MIR. Saunders col
league. Notwithstanding Russell Har-
riSon's aspirations to represent his state
in the upper house of congress, Mr..
Power asserts that the presidents son
has not a ghost of show.
r. S. Munger, of Duluth, one of the
prime movers in the Duluth & Winni-
peg railway, who is director and one
of the largest stockholders in the COM
fore the legislature is defeated, they
cannot cancel our land grant. The s1-
preme court of the United States de-
cided in the case of the Northern Pa
cific that it required a special act of con-
gress to do this. In the case of the Du-
luth 81 Winnipeg it would, therefore,
take special act of the legislature to
cancel the grant. Such an act cannot
be got through, as the house has al
ready shown its feeling in favor of the
road, and no sue h measure could be got
through. Ii this bill is defeated we
shall simply go ahead and build the
road. and as fast as we earn it we shall
get the land. The only trouble will be
what our opponents are anxious to Sc
cure, lack of confidence among East
ern capitalists. But we can get around
that all right. The road is now in good
hands, and Messrs. Wright and Casey
can finance it through without diff
Guilty. No, sir, they cannot take away
our land grant, as it takes the house,
senate and governor to do that, and the
house is with US, whoever else is against
u.s."
Did you ever witness hanging-se
a creature of flesh and blood, made in
the same image as Yourself, strangie at
the end of rope? The suggestion of
such a termination of a human life is
painful to any right-minded individual.
Is hanging-merely viewed as purish-
ment for crime-inhuman? No. Most
emphatically. The judge and jury con-
demnlng the individual who pays the
penalty for his crime suffer in greater
degree than the criminal on the scaffold.
The criminal knows his fate, and, with
rare exceptions. is not a creature of fine
sensibilities. He approaches death at
the hangman's hands, knowing that
sooner or later he would die in fist
fight, or by some other means plenti-
fully interspersed along the whisky
route to perdition.
Other elements and causes lead to
murder, to be sure. But can it be rea-
Sonably supposed that sane man, I'M
IOS md r,f I,a It.Ay 0E
murderouS passion, would take the life
of his neighbor? A man crazed under
the influence of liquor can be-as has
been time and again proven-acquitted
When brute force is so far depraved
that human intelligence is held in sub
servience by the clever tricks of attor-
news, then it behooves the people of
this community to insis. upon the en-
forcement of the laws.
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Not many years agO-eight, | think,
citizens OF Minneapolis lynched a
young fiend directly opposite the high
school site. The participants i'll that
affair were well known, and blind eff
fort was made to discover the identity
of the victim. When the corpse was
found the mob took good care to blind
the police, and the execution ca was
publicly approved as the best piece of
police work ever accomplished in Min
neapolis. But the police hadn't any in
formation concerning the affair until
McManuS had been dead several hours.
This affair and its progenitors were
well known, but the public would have
revolted if names had been made public
Co Many want ads in Sundays GLOBE
W prove that it brings the best results