St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-16
MINNEAPOLIS.
THE WEEKLY PRESS.

A few years ago novel feature was
introduced in the celebrations with
which all classes in Norway commem-
crate their declaration of national indie
pendence on the nth of May, 1914. The
innovation consisted simply in making
the children turn out and form pro-
cession of their own. A speech adapted
to the range of the little ones always is
an accompaniment to the exercises,
which. intersperSed by music and sing
ing, generally wind up with some light
amusement of a kind to be appreciated
by children. Now, is not this custom
worth adopting here? There is dan
ger that the outward display
of patriotism may be carried 100
far. But certainly no such obJec-
ton can be made against the present
mode of celebrating Independence DAY.
To the children in particular, 1T has no
deeper meaning at all. If the people
consider this unnecessary, then, or
course. the more fire-crackerS and the
like are turned loose upon a suffering
community, the better. But If, besides
the noise and briIliancy of fireworks, 1t
is found desirable that the children's
thoughts should be turned, IL but for
few fleeing moments, into other and
more patriotic channels, then help them
to gather under the stars and stripes;
march with them to the tunes of our
national anthems; sing with them;
speak to them of the glorious deeds
clustering around the day we celebrate.
In one word, make them feel that they
have share in the Fourth, as future
citizens of the republic North.
The claims of the Northwest TO the
attention of the men seeking new loca-
tons for their furniture factories are
pretty thoroughly set forth in the adj
yertising columns of the News. Both
st. Paul and Minneapolis, supple
mented by the board of trade of the
Midway district, have set upon foot an
organized effort to secure the location
of new factories in the Northwest.
They are encouraged to do this because
the existing factories are almost With
out exception prosperous, and because
there is no more inviting field offered to
manufacturers than that III the region
about st. Paul and Minneapolis. There
are now thirty-SiX factories in the two
cities, OF within a radius of 100 miles OF
the common center, and the product of
these factories is marketed in a COM
mon territory, and practically dlstrlb-
uted from the common center winch the
two cities make up. The growth OF
furniture making in the Northwest has
been phenomenal, and the industry is
only in the infancy of its development.
The Furniture News.
Rev. DR.. Shutter, assistant pastor of
the Church of the Redeemer, preached
on the Bennett law last Sunday, and
denounced the Catholics aud Lutherans
of Wisconsin for opposing it,. Or.
Shutter has evidently not read the
Bennett law. and if he has, he has mis-
understood the objections that Catholics
have to 1t. The Wisconsin Catholics
are not opposed to the teaching OF the
English language in the parochlal
schools. and if DR.. Shutter had read
the manifesto issued by the Catholic
bishops of the state, in which they out
lined their objections to the law, he
would not have been guilty OF mlSln-
forming his hearers last Sunday. The
Catholics of Wisconsin concede the
state the right to regulate state schools
as 1t sees fit, but they hold
that any attempt on the part
of the state to regulate prl-
vate schools is unconstitutional.
We can bring the matter home to those
people better who send their children
to Bennett seminary in this city. If
such a law as the Wisconsin Bennett
law existed in Minnesota, the parents
who now send their children to Bennett
seminary, and who do not live i'll the
district in which that school is, would
be obliged to take their children from
Bennett seminary and send them to the
public school in their own district.
This no doubt would not please these
parents. They evidently think that
Bennett seminary is better than the
public schools, and consequently they
send their children there. We are sure
that any attempt on the part Of Mime
sofa to interfere with private schools
would be met with the strongest oppo-
sition by the friends of Bennett semin-
ary.-Irish Standard.
Present indications are that the
United States census now being taken
in this city is one of the most inefficient
and imperfect pieces of work that ever
disgraced an American city. No good
reason exists for such failure. The
imperfections can be almost wholly
charged to incompetent management,
lack of energy and executive ability in
the supervisor, Mr.. Davenport, and con-
sequently inefficiency of the force Sc
lected by him, and working under his
direction. The appointment of Mr..
Davenport was evidently fatal mis-
take Of a power controlled by the
spells system, which places political
preferment before business Qualifica-
lions. Put into the hands of any live
real estate man, newspaper worker,
directory publisher, or other live bust
ness man accustomed to ''hustling,"
and familiar with the city, the census
could easily be success as it has here
tofore been in Minneapolis, and as it
BOW is in other cities. If the DEFICIENCIES
of the census as already taken cannot
be made good, action should at once be
taken to secure at the clty's expense a
complete census, putting the work in
charge of some live business man. Let
a recount be made, even if it be not
possible to make it matter of govern
ment recnr6.=The Snectator.