St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-26
LOOKS BACK A LITTLE.
And Finds Some Places Where
Changes Have Not Been for the


And Finds Some Places Where
Changes Have Not Been for the
Better.
Special to the Globe
FOUNTAIN, MIMI, July 22.-It has
been splendid weather for making hay
while the sun Shines" although there
have been cloudy, threatening days and
a light shower that did ne harm. With
/ the exception of two very warm days
I the weather has been cool, with good
: cool breeze flying over the bluff; the val
ileys were not so fortunate in being cool.
The grain fields are changing from
green to golden, and next week will
show ''stubble" fields where rye and
winter wheat have grown. and the oats
promise to be the last fields the binder
will pass over.
\ ! Binding Irvine is offered at Is cents,
whatever may be the price the trust"
twInemakers may put on the article
they make. 1t is hoped the state au-
thorities will take the matter in hand,
and furnish the secluded people at
Saltwater with such employment as
does not as yet come into competition
with outsiders, who have banded to-
gether and dictate what they consider
right or wrong in such cases.
1t is noticed that those men that paw
little or TO tax at all are the ones that
cry out the loudest about the unjust tax
alton, or some other grievance.
This is the case all over the country,
and always among an almost non-tax-
paying population every opportunity
that occurs; and one can usually tell
who pays taxes and who does not pay a
farthing of the expense necessary to
carry on the government and our public
institutions. No taxpayer will set up a
howl about his tax when reasonable,
but there will be howl, that like the
voice of beast that shakes the ground
in his vicinity when he roars. and it
will shake states instead of a few
feet of ground if they have to
support by taxes large class of nom
producers in idlenesS. When a man
has labored and obtained home by
many prfvationS endured by himself
and family, and still labors to lay up a
little for days that may come when he
cannot do any labor, he will strongly
object to being ruled in that way; in
fact, the whole country, so far as pri-
vate letters can be sent, are growing
tired of strikes and combines" and
young men clad in fine clothing or tat
tered garments, tramping the country
and begging their bread from
door-IuSt getting their living out
of the sympathies Of some people. and
of those that believe there is work for
them if they did not think the sympa-
thy of the people was with them and
would support them, at leisure to them
selves. and they had only to ask and it
would be given to them.
More of them are clothed like young
gentlemen of leisure than there are beg
gars in ragged attire. Time was when
man had place where he could have
good steady work with fair wages, he
kept his place for years, and if he had
''house and lot" he tried to save and
lay up his wages. II he had no home
he would not be long without pla e to
lay his head.
There are thousands of such men in
this LAND of the free and home of the
brave" that are to-day living at their
ease, who worked in their youth from
early morn, from day to day, i'll some
cases until s O'Clock in the evening,
and paid their board every week, las well
as saving few dollars to lay away for
the future. No fine clothes were worn;
no rings cleaned on their finger; no
watch chain dangled from their vest
pocket; no fine foot covering was theirs,
but they did appear we'll, and kept we'll
informed of passing events, improving
every spare hour Of time in just
what was good, useful reading,
and improving mind and man
mers without any ostentation, then the
same gentleman now although wealthy
and influential, this old gentleman puts
on no airs, nor does any member of his
family indulge in any extravaganza.
The workers of those years would have
been ashamed to have gone on tramp
begging from door to door for the food
they wanted. or anything else, as for