St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-06
NOT HAVING BEEN A HARLoT,
But Always Having Been True to
Its Allegiance, the Globe Didn't

But Always Having Been True to
Its Allegiance. the Globe Didn't
Have to Reform.
st. Paul Daily News.
AS matter of absolute justice, the
Daily News wishes to emphasize the
fact that the GLOBE has, from it's incep-
ton, been st. Paul paper, and never
made a pretense of being anything else.
1t had no Minneapolis flag to lower dur
ing the recent census unpleasantness,
because, while it had given Minneapolis
news, it had never raised their banner.
OF the two morning papers in the city,
the GLOBE has, ten to one, the call for
business from our citizens OH patriotic
grounds. Not having been a traitor
to the city in which it is located,
it cannot, of course, make the claim of
reformation, as in the case of the Pho
neer Press, but reform only forced by
pecunfary loss, and paraded to secure
pecuniary gain from another source. is
certainly of doubtful variety. The
people of st. Paul ought to stand by
those who have been true to their inter-
CSto II Oi1 UiiV Stdi anu LiOG UC
into making up losses for a paper
which has for years banked on building
up competing locality. The merits of
the GLOBE as a newspaper are too we'll
known and acknowledged to need an
especiai mention at our hands. 1t is in
the front rank all of the time.
The st. Paul Dispatch wittily car
hn ofo oE
Press In their present appeal to the peo-
pie of this city to drop nickel in the
slot and see the P. P. flop"
The p. P.'S business in Minneapolis,
which was at one time larger than it's
business in st. Paul, having gradually
dwindled until it had become for the
last year merely nominal, and having
recently been entirely snuffed out, that
paper attempts to play the martyr ON
the st. Paul public OH this account.
Referring to this, the Dispatch says:
sThings have come to pretty pass
when the publication and SuStainment
of a newspaper becomes a matter of
public charity. Our cartoon to-day rep
resents an actual condition now prevail
ing. the business men of st. Paul are eX-
pected to help to drag corporate insti-
tuition out of the slough of financial EN-
barrassment ana public contempt by
having their smpathies played upon by
the aid of plain, palpable falsehood.
BY the SuStalnment of any such device
the general public will show it's willing
ness to bear the largest share of the re-
spOnsibility for the prostitution of tie
public press. which should, without fear
Oh favor. sustain the public interests.
Now it Is sought to convince the peo-
pie by the aid of downright unvarnished
falsehood that the paper has suffered BY
its devotion to st. Paul, and is hereafter
to be distinctively st. Paul paper.
The poor success which has thus far at
tended the mission of the literary men
dicant among the merchants and busl-
ness men of st. Paul has proved that the
facts are known in this community, and
of society, and whose SympathieS out
run their discretion. are willing to aid
in prOpping up an institution which is
gradually disintegrating by the power
full forces of chicanery, fraud and lack
of principle, which have been operating
in its management for so long.
The accompanying cartoon tells the
story in pitny and accurate manner,
and the consensus of opinion, as OBJ
tanned ky the Dispatch among business
men, is that matters must have become
decidedly uncertain, and the belief in
human credulity have advanced cOnsid-
erably in the neighb0rhoOd of the I'iO-
Ileer Press Office, il such a device is eX-
pected to be followed by good results to
the proprietary company"