St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-19

Just why they go is quite obtuse,
And really tbs pity
That they should leave for cen day
This strictly moral city.
With Mayor BaDb and council gone
How can the city runi
For one day it can happy be,
iwlIl have no aldermen.
To celebrate, il might be well
To close up every store
And have each public building hang
Some Grape upon its door.
Since the board of health extended its
jurisdiction Health Commissioner Kill
vingtOn has been the target for many
v0lley of irritated and indignant eX-
presSiOns that ema mated from the pens
of tumultuouS and oniOn-eyed citizens.
Newspaper war is nothing new for
kilvington. as he never undertook to
introduce any preventive for the pre-
servation of health out what he was
denounced by pack of cranks that
were polluted with prejudice. Not one
in ten that have expressed an opinion
on the new departure know what part
the health department intends to play.
lit practically licenses prostitution
and "kilvington should have been
Shelved with the other Democrats" are
common expressions. The GLOBE
hOuiN lihS W nave SOiIiS lHtClllSSllG
zen demonstrate in what way the pre-
servation of public health legalizes an
unlawful business. People who do not
regard the law are generally taken care
of by the police officials-that is. if their
superlOrs say so. Ii the police had
routed out all the dives. Kilvington
would have escaped the unpleasant
duty that has created somewhat Of
sensation.
''Sin and Suffer-" or words to that eff
feet, came from the pen of DR.. Martha
q. Ripley. That would he very well if
the suffering could be limited to the
sinner, but as DR.. Ripley we'll knows
the innocent are very often the ones
that have to pay dearly for the crimes of
others. 1t would be Just as logical for
temperance advocate to say that it
would be no more of ciime for licensed
Saloonkeeper to sell poison than pure
whisky. 1t is all on the same basis. The
houses are licensed, or rather protected,
by the police upon the payment of
monthly fines at the municipal court.
The first street madames have no more
fear of actual arrest when they pay
theiI taxes regularly to the municipal
court than has the chief of police that
he will be arrested upon his own order.
iC Will lISDtCG otUCh
yards this morning. 1t was intimated
last evening that Aid Parry would
chaperOn the party and see that the
"boys" are well taken care of.
The Times, in its comment yesterday
upon sentence imposed upon sneak
thief who stole newspaper, said the
court was in doubt as to the value of
the article stolen, and consequently
only imposed fine of 10 cents. Sup
pose the paper stolen had been one of
the 24,00O.000 copies printed by the
Times. Wouldn't the court have been
in debt to the thief, and made Col.
Smith hook his diamond to help out?
Minneapolis is perhaps one of the
most patriotic cities in the United Slates,
and it is also the happy pOSSeSSOr of
flag which, at one time, f1Oated proudly
over the city hail. The flag was placed
there by order of the city council, and
the committee on public grounds
and buildings, of which Com
rade Tom Downs, of the Fifth
ward, is chairman, was instructed to
see that the stars and stripes were dis
played every day. The flag which now
decOrates the building looks more like
a cross between bedqnilt and a col
lapsed balloon than it does like the flag
of the greatest nation on the face of
the earth. Only five of the stripes re-
main. and the poor old rag which has
done duty for years should be replaced
at once with new one.
Police Commissioner Guile wants all
the prisoners who are sent to the work
house 10 be discharged from the central
station, so that the detectives will know
them. Most of the prisoners would
rather be discharged before they go to
the workhouse.
Capt. Bennett will now have a chance
to drill Private LIndquist, unless the
latter's bank account holds out longer
than the captains determination.
The special committee appointed by
the supervisors of the poor 10 inspect
the poor farm yesterday dropped in on
that institution without any warning.
The members say that as far as they
could discover the institution is a model
one, and they very much enjoyed din
ner of ham and eggs.
Now that the Minneapolis building
ordinances are to receive a thorough
OVerhauling it is expected that some of
the high buildings will be supplied with
much-needed fire escapes.
August Lindquist has been fined for
desiring to leave an organization into
which young men are often led under
false pretenses. Verify, the national
guard is in bad way for volunteer"
organization, when it is necessary to re-
sort to the courts in order to pre-
serve it.
Would the several Minneapolis di-
vines take it SO philosophically were
they asked, as was Talmage, if they are
humbugs? Here is an opportunity for
some rash interviewer.
Some newspaper humoriStS profess
to see huge joke in the stealing of a
copy of the GLOBE, and Judge Emery's
treatment of the same. Emery was
merely complimenting the boy for hav-
ing shown good taste in stealing a real
newspaper.
The consistency with which Lawyers
must act was never better illustrated
than by the present attitude of county
attorneys toward expert testimony"
which they were compelled to uphold
In the COLON trial.
Since Jake Kilrain has been whipped
by a comparative unknown. many be-
lieye that even our ''Doc'' Kilvington
may yet meet his Waterloo.
A lOng-suffering but patient public is
anX;ously awaiting the time when the
''Deestrict Skule" will be over, the
pupils have received their reward of
merit cards and gone to work again.
Too much of even "Deestrict Skule'7-ing
Is sometimes bad thing.
Johnny-What are those young men
In band suits doing, pa?
Pater-Ihey are drilling, my son.
J.-Do they enjoy it?
Pho; but their lady friends do.
The language used by the Minneap-
oils divines at some of their reform
meetings would throw in the shade some
of the harangues of a heated political