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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-19
TRAIN ROBBERIEs.

The soul of JESSE JAMES is still
marching on down in Missouri. The
train robbery at Robbers Cut" on the
Missouri Pacific Sunday night was
equal to the most noted performances
OF the JAMES and YOUNGER gangs.
Yet, to those who have never been
aboard train when attacked by rob-
bers, the wonder is that mere handful
of men can so completely Overawe a
train full of passengers that everybody
sits with folded h ,nds and subdued
hearts while the pillaging is going on.
But to person who has had experience
with tram robbers the mystery is easily
solved. A revolver in the hand of an
ugly robber is wonderful persuader of
silence and inactiOn on such an occa-
sion. Most every traveller sets some
value on his life, and if he does he
doesn't care to put it in the balance
against one whose life is worthless.
The train-robbing episodes are always
instances of where an organized minor
ity is an overmatch for disorganized
majority. Perhaps there were 200 pas
sengers on that train last Sunday
night, and yet five men held the train
up and carried away the contents of
the express car. The 200 passengers
were busy hiding their money and val
uables, with no thought of resistance.
while the five robbers were leisurely
helping themselves to the rich store of
booty they found in the express car.
What an aggregation of human cow
ardice there was among the railway
attaches and the passengers that such
robbery was possible, and yet it is
always the case. Why is it that the
railway companies do not organize their
employees into a police force and keep
them in readiness for just such emer-
gencies. One bold spirit to have taken
the lead could certainly have found
enough volunteer assistants among the
train load of passengers to have cleaned
out the robber gang. Or, if the passen-
gers had not volunteered, the train men,
if properly armed and organized, would
have been match for the bandits.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-19
TARIFF TAX TABLETS.

The Philadelphia Record makes the
following clear exposition of how high
markets and shoddy goods go together:
OF all the items of our tariff that of
wool is parent of the meanest child
the shoddy industry" The tariff on
'.unwashed wooP' is ten cents per
pound. Unwashed, when used with
reference to foreign woods, means such
lean wool grower never sees.
The duty, therefore, is equivalent to
a duty of say 40 cents per pound
on clean wool, to make which it takes
say four pounds of the ''unwaShed."
The consequence is that the manufact-
urer cannot afford to import woods ex-
cept in the comparatively small quanti-
ties required to help make expensive
goods. and he turns elsewhere to get
material for common goods, such as the
laborer uses. AS a result, old WORKOUT
wooden goods are picked to pieces by
special machinery, and the result,
shoddy, is used as a cheap substitute
for wool.
So effectual have these devices for
adulterating woods become that masons
have been driven to wool for a substi-
tute for cows hair used to help make
mortar tenacious, the market having
been swept clean by the 'swoolen''
manufacturers. If the wool growers
should come to the wooden mills and
see the piles, not merely Of rags, but of
cows hair, goats hair, dogs hair, and
even some sorts Of bark fiter. that are
manipulated into the appearance of
wool and used in making so-called
'.woolens," they would lose whatever
faith they may have in the professions
of protected manufacturers of desire
to promote the farmers interests.
The shoddy industry furnishes one of
the most characteristic examples of
'sprotectionist' practices versus protec-
Zionist principles. When our tariff was
adjusted in 1875 the joint executive COM
mittee Of the Wool Growers and Wool
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-19
MORE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

The debate ON the tin-plate duty the
past week in the senate has been use
full one. 1t has furnished an object
lesson that can be read by the most dull
and purblind. 1t forced the Republic
cans to attempt to defend their position,
which was task calculated to unsettle
the nerves. especially of those who
represent the FESTIVE people in the
West. The vote on the proposition to
increase the present duty 125 per cent
was uncomfortably close. Senator
situation and voted with the Democrats.
INGALLS, looked and lodged. Senator
DAVIS. of this state, turned an eye upon
the dairy interests to be Durdened,
and perhaps saw the dinner-paiI
brigade. and he voted against his
party. Two or three others were
among the missing. Senator PLUMB
begged his party associates to
accept bounty upon the tin plate
made in this country, and mot to force
an increase of duty On all the tinware
used in the country, on every tin cup,
on every tin plate and coffee pot and on
every yard of tin roofing in the United
States"
Even with this oppressive tax on all
the users of tinware in the country, it
is conceded that there is grave doubt
that local industry can be created that
will approximate the local consump-
ton. Senator PLUME did not believe
his could be effected in long series of
years. There is to be no compensation
to the producers for this tax. The few
thousand tin plate makers have to be
fed all the same, whether they are in
Wales or Pittsburg. If the present
tduty of 35 per cent will not warrant the
manufacture of tin plate in this country.
better leave it till the conditions are
more favorable. If the people are to
help out those who want to establish an
Improbable business, the more econom-
ical and fair way is to pay bounty.
There is no tax in that case if the
scheme is failure. AS choice of evils.
the bounty is the least.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-19
AN OBJECT LESSON.

An illustration of the practical opera
ton of the tariff, and of the unworthy of
the theory that the foreign shippers pay
the duty on imported goods, is afforded
in the case of musical instruments.
The New York agent of the importers
has sent circular to the trade announc-
ing that their prices have been adj
vanced to cover the importation costs of
the administrative tariff bill in force
from Aug. 4. This law exacts duties
upon the boxes and wrappings in which
the goods are packed, and this is at once
passed down to the purchaser of the in
struments. 1t is announced further
that if the MCKINLEY bill passes, with
its additional duties, there will be an
other raise of prices. The retail pur-
chaser has the duty to pay with some
additional percentage to each of the par
ties who handle the goods. Then the
local manufacturer of competing goods
sees his chance, and adds most of the
duty also. He is doing well at present
figures, but when better thing is
thrown at him he will take it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-19
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Detroit doctors are quarreling over
their ability to kill diphtheria germs.
The BURBERRY shipments from Black
River Falls, Wis, have exceeded 5000
bushels.
Mrs. Jacob Yerick, of Jackson. Mich,
has sunflower sixteen feet high and
still growing.
The total annual home consumption
of opium in China was lately reckOned
to be about Al, 800, 600 pounds.
= A fifteen. pound pumpkin has grown
in a pear tree in eX-Sheritf MOOre'S gar
den at Mays Landing, n. j.
The Heligolanders rarely lock their
doors, but when they do they leave the
key where it can be reached by any one
seeking admission.
Mr.. Thefein. fruit raiser at Pomona,
Atlantic county, n. j., picked $4,000
quarts of berries from twenty-acre
field this season. His net profit was
$1,000.
A Jackson, Mich. shoe dealer is try
ing to buy pair of shoes belonging to
Georgia negro. The feathers are No.
Is and weigh four pounds and five
ounces.
A turbot weighing twenty-three
pounds was once found to contain a roe
of five pounds nire ounces III weight,
the eggs of which amounted, as Frank
auckland aseertained, to no less than
1881. 200.
The centennial celebration and re-
dedication of the organ in Hams
church, at Wernersville, Berks county,
Pa, took place the other day. The
organ has been in use 100 years.
After forty years of work in the en-
ploy of York, Me. mandatory, the
corporation has rewarded the faithful
services of Fannie Hutchins by placing
her in an old ladies' home.
It has been computed that 100000
or 100000 babies are born in the
world each year. The rate of produc-
ton is therefore about seventy per min
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-19

fallen into the hands of Inscriptions
and unworthy men,"
What Mr.. WOLFE says of the political
situation in Pennsylvania is equally
true of the situation here in Minnesota.
The conditions are precisely the same.
The Republican party in Minnesota is
dominated by corporations; it plumbers
the mass of the people for the benefit of
favored interests, and its leadership has
fallen into the hauds of INSCRIPTIONS
and unworthy men.
If there is a just incentive for indie
pendent Republicans in Pennsylvania
to break away from their party, there is
an equal incentive for independent Re-
publicans in Minnesota to do the same
thing. In fact, there is more boodleism
in Minnesota than in PENNSYLVANIA.
There is more corruption in Republican
politics here than there, and will con-
tinue to be SO long as the masses ELL
courage boodleism by keeping boodlers
in positions of trust and responsibility.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-19
FREAKS IN POLITICS.

Enthusiastic people, who rise in con-
ventions to the height of party loyalty
that looks backward to the records of
ancestors, do not create strong presump-
lions that their political faith iSa prob
lem of their own solution. There may
be indications of filial reverence in the
assertion that the father and son have
always been Republicans or Democrats,
and never put pencil upon a party
ticket, but there is small occasion for
pounding the air OF floor over the mat
ter. A man who has been voter for a
long life and never found a name on a
party ticket that good citizenship would
condemn has bad rare fortune. The
questions about which men group them
selves in parties change, and the
person who never discovers the
fact is voting for name rather
than intelligent conviction. The
man who votes the Republican
ticket now because there was a question
abont slavery and war generation
ago is match for the Democrat who
still votes for ANDREW JACKSON. In
current politics there are noted several
curious cases of divergence of members
of the same family. AT the late election
in Alabama the Republican candidate
for governor had progressive son who
rau for the legislature as a Democrat,
and outran the father tremendously in
their home district. Mr.. BAXTER is the
Republican candidate for governor in
Tennessee, while his brother has just
been nominated for the same Office by
the Democrats in Wyoming. Their
chances of election are somewhat equal.
But the queerest case, and one
that is an index of the politi-
cal revolution in that state, is
found at Fort Scott. in Kansas.
Gen. j. H. RICE and son publish the
leading Republican daily paper of the
district. The son is the Republican
candidate for the legislature, and an
admirer of INGALLS,. The father is the
Independent candidate, and specially
hostile to INGALLS,. Each has half
interest in the paper, but the son uses it
entirely for his own support and ignores
his father as a candidate. The latter
publishes letter giving the grounds of
his opposition to INGALLS,, which are
personal, political and moral. He terms
him political shyster, buccaneer and
leper," discusses the famous inter-
view in which the senator had himself
photographed in so many dramatic atti-
tudes, and speaks of the publication
of politics as an iridescent DRAMA"
Gen. RICE touches him up in this way:
This could only be the language of a
political charlatan. 1t is shameful and
Infamous. In the same interview, with
foul blasphemy on his tongue, he de-
clared that he had no doubt, in response
to the search for eternal truth, whether
Christ will come and another revela-
titn be made. If this be not blasphemy,
there is no such thing. 1t will be blot
upon Christianity when enough of Kan
sas' protesting Christians walk up to the
ballot box and vote for men to go to To-
peka to re-elect this biasphemer to the
United States senate"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-19
PINKERToN HEssIANs.

Those armed minions of plutocracy,
the PINKERTON detectives, are creating
quite stir down in York state by their
indiscriminate slaughter of women and
children under tine pretense of protect
ng railroad property. They must be
wonderfully patient people down in
that section, for if such an outrage had
been perpetrated in Western town as
the PINKERToN thugs committed in
Albany, the lamp posts and telegraph
poles would have been ornamented
with the suspended bodies of Mr.. PINK
ERToN's hired men.
The detective business is a perfectly
legitimate one. Its province, however,
is TO ferret out crime. to hunt down
criminals. and, with the aid of the
proper police authorities, to bring them
to justice. There is no authority, how
ever, in the laws of the United States,
or In the laws of any state of this Union,
for converting detective agency into
an armed mob, nor even for substi-
tuting the hirelings of detective bu-
reau in the place of the regularly con-
stituted police authorities. The per-
fermance of the PINKERTON men at
Albany last Sunday was as gross an
outrage upon both the form and spirit
of American law as was the action of the
Chicago anarchists when they exploded
the fatal bomb which killed number
of innocent people.
The railway corporations make a
great mistake If they suppose that pop
ular sentiment will sustain their course
in employing outlaws to protect theiI
property. The local police authorities
can always be relied on, and, if they are
not sufficient to resist mob, the state
and national forces are easily available
The principle is wrong that either al
individual or corporation shall be per
mltted to keep in service a retiEue Of
armed retainers. 1t is a species OF
! feudalism that is repulsiye to the Ameri
can idea of government, and should moi
be tolerated for one moment. 1t is moi
| only repulSlve. but a dangerous prac
tice. Whenever and wherever we gel
beyond the forms of law it is anarchiSm
whether it be done by a corporation OF
by the followers Of the red flag, and il
! either case an indignant public will
frown upon the act.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-19
DOLLARS FOR PARTIOTs.
The Irish Picnic at Milwaukee
Nets a Big Profit.

Nets Big Profit.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 10. - The
Irish picnic to-day was attended by
from 5000 to 10000 people, and will add
many thousand dollars to the Parnell
fund. A procession, concert of
Irish music and games were the
features of the day. Addresses were
made by John Flaherty, of Chicago, the
Rev. DR.. O'Reilly, of Detroit. and Father
Cleary, of Kenosha. Dr.. O'Reilly told
what the league had accomplished, and
said the fight could not be carried on
without money. Some people, he said,
had been disposed to ask what
had become of the vast sums
that had been already sent to
Ireland. The sums thus sent had not
been as large as some people imagined,
having amounted to only Sl,00O,O0O in
the last ten years, or an average of
500, 200 year. The largesr sum for
any two years was about 100000. This
was not large when compared to the
sums that had been raised in Ireland.
He had the privilege of attending one
of the finest county conventions ever
held in Ireland for the purpose
of planning to fight for home
rule, and the result Of this con-
VenIlOn WAS IIdI S0UU,UUU WAS raised III
poor. distressed Ireland in about two
months. The people should remember,
he said, that the expenses of the
fight were enormous. Every cleo
ton in Ireland cost at least
$1,000, and in many instances the
cost ran as high as $4,000 or $1,000.
At the coming election in 1892 there
would be about 100 constituencies to
elect from. and the expense would be
enormous. 1t was this election that
efforts were now being made to tide
over. Ii the Liberals won it would
mean the triumph of home rule for
Ireland. If the Liberals lost they
would have to prepare for another
election. One OF the leagues greatest
items of expense. said the speaker,
was the supporting of forty-two MEM
bers in the house of parliament.
The expense of the election of these
members, and their expenses while
in parliament were all borne by the
league. Nobody in England had
an idea whose these members were, tor
if 1t it became known that their eX-
penses were paid from the outside they
would lose their prestige in parliament.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-19
PENSION EXTRAVAGANCE,

There was a bit of demagogy in
Gen. ALGER's speech at the Boston en-
campment which was entirely I'M
worthy of both the man and the oc-
casion. He laid stress on the fact
that the money paid out for pensions
goes to all parts of the country, where it
pays the necessary bills to the mer-
chants and farmers, who. in turn, are
able to pay their debts, and so on.
But Gen. ALGER failed to state til at
this same money which is paid out in
the way he indicates is first collected
from the people, and that they are only
getting back their own. Nor are they
getting all of that. After the money
first leaves the pockets of the farmers
and the merchants in the shape of an
indirect tax, there is a certain proper
ton deducted to pay the expense of col
Letting and of repayment, and this part
of it never comes back to them.
There is no disposition to growl at
the pension tax, provided it could be
applied properly. If the worthy vet
Grams were to get it all, the taxpayers
would be satisfied; but when it is re-
membered that the pension rolls are be-
ing filled up with the names of bum
mers and camp followers-men who
never fired gun nor did one honest
days service in the army-there is a
disposition on the part of taxpayers to
kick. Furthermore, a large proportion
of the tax gees to the claim agents and
ATTORNEYS in the way of fees and com
missions, and never reaches the pockets
of the pensioners.
If Gen. ALEGR had stated the whole
truth as he was telling part of it, he
would have reflected more credit upon
himself and upon the Grand Army
than by his studied effort to conceal the
main points in this pension eXtrava-
gance. A truth half-told is often more
hurtful than lie.
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ute, or rather more than one for every
beat of the clock.
A Flint, Mich, barber has two razors
which have been in the family since
1705, and been handed down through
four generations, and have shaved
everything from a pilgrim fathers
whiskers down.
Unsuitable burglary" was the verdict
brought in by justice of the peace in
Summer county, Kansas, in case in
which the defendants were two boys
who broke into an icehouse OH the
warmest day of the recent hot spell.
In New York the law against cigar
cite smoking goes into effect Sept. 1.
Minors under sixteen caught putting
the vile things will be fined 50 and inn
prisoned for one day. Some people
think a good whipping should be
thrown in.
The following notice has been posted
by citizen on the main street at
Athena, Or: ''To my neighbors: IF
my spring chickens are disturbing your
garden. kill them and eat them. Don't
pile them out in the alley to become
nuiSgncn
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-19
THE STORY OF A DAY,

Britain's parliament is prorogued.
Dwyer Bros. will dissolves partnership.
The car and kaiser meet at Narya, Rus
sia.
Trespassers on Chickasaw lands must va
cate.
American railroads earned nearly $1,000
100000 last year.
The chamber of commerce considers sun
dry city matters.
Competent enumerators for the st. Paul re-
count are i'll demand
The inquest in the Horton case was begun
and continued one week.
Otter Tail county Democrats indorse the
Alliance Labor county ticket.
Rev. D. A. Smith. of Clam Falls, Wis,
elopes with pretty Mrs. Falaha.
The Hennepin Democracy will hold q
county convention on Aug. %.
Worlds fair directors will meet in Chicago
to night and scrap over the site question.
II. D. Minot is in California, working out a
Western terminus for the Great Northern.
drunken negro and ferocious bulldog
carve and chew several Badger statesmen al
Racine
Sioux Indians at Chamberlain are annoyed
at the non arrival of cash for lands ced ed
to Uncle Sam.
The fall meeting of the National Associa-
ton of TrottiGg and Pacing Horse Breeders
at Chicago begins.
An Italian scissors grinder shoots an inof
fensive farmer at Delaware O., and mar
rowly escapes lynch ng.
Congressman Carter wants all mineral
lands in the Northern Pacific grant in Idaho
and Montana examined and classified.
Howell 0sbornes valet attempts 10 snug
gle diamonds sent as gift TO Fay Temple
ton, and now .languishes in a Gotham Jail.
hitch occurs in the proposed investiga-
ton of the charges against Pension Com
missioner Raum, Democratic congressman
declining to serve on the committee
Vice President Webb, of the New Yorl
Central road. refuses to arbitrate the strike
now on. All the members of the Federation
of Railroad Employees will be called out to
day.
This will he a week of battle in Sout
America war being inevitable between the
allied armies of Honduras and Guatemala
on one SIDE and the Salvadorian troops Oh
the other
The minority report ON the Clayton-Breck
inridge contested election case is presented
to the house by Representative Maish, who
riddles the report presented by the biase6
majority in favor of unseating Congressman
Breckenridge.
Brooklyn, Chicago and Pittsburg wiz
Players league games; league laures art
captured by Boston, Brooklyn, Cincinnati
and Chicago. and Toledo wins the only game
played in the American association Denver
Kansas City and Lincoln winning the West
ern association games.