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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-25
THE GRANGER CASES.

Without the full text of the decision
before US, it would be worse than idle
to enter upon discussion of the intent
and scope of the decision rendered by
the supreme court of the United States
yesterday in the Minnesota granger
cases. The mere announcement of the
decision and its tenor conveys the i'm
preston that the relations between the
court and the corporations are little
too close for the health of the Minnesota
farmers. This impression is not only
conveyed by the fact that the supreme
court of this state, composed of probably
as able lawyers as the associate Judges
of the United States supreme court,
held a different opinion from the
one rendered yesterday, and that
large and most respectable MI
nority of the federal supreme court
failed to concur in the opinion. but also
because Justice BLATCHFoRD travelled
outside of the record and outside of the
text of the Minnesota law to find some
thing on which to base his opinion.
Contrary to the statement of the court.
G1C N1IIIlCSUUd law uOOS plONluO IAaU
before the state railway commission
shall establish rates the railroad COM
panieS and all parties interested shall
have hearing and be granted the priv
ilege of adducing testimony, and as a
matter of fact that course is invariably
pursued by the commission. Why JUS
tice BLATCHFoRD and his associates
who concurred IN his view of the case
should have based their decision
on false assumption is ques-
ton we cannot undertake to answer
with the little light before us. The
synopsis of the decision furnished in
our press dispatches seems to leave the
state railway commission no standing
room. for our whole state railroad law
is unconstitutional. If the legislature
has no power to delegate authority to a
commission, and if the proceedings taken
by commission are not to be regarded
as due processes of law, then the sooner
the commission is abolished and the law
repealed, the better it will be for all the
interests of the state. The legislature
will then have to go to work and fix a
schedule of freight and passenger rates
and provide for the regulation of all
railway corporations by general law,
which will probably be worse for the
railroads than the existing system. 1t
makes no difference upon what techni-
calities the courts may hang, or the
judges may differ-the people are. and
ought to be, masters of the situation,
and will find some way to enforce their
will,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-25
PRESS OPINIONS.

The government has stood the loss of
tens of millions in the subsidized Pacific
roads, but the billions that would be re-
Quired to take up all loans and mort
cages in the country would be burden
beyond its strength and would bury it
in ruins. Chicago Tribune, Republic
can.
An ounce of experience is worth a
pound of theory. The actual operation
of the ballot reform law proves that the
objections to it are mostly bugabOos
conjured by professional politicians to
prevent interference with their trade.
1t is reform which is sure to prevail,
and politicians who obstruct its path
will certainly get hurt.-New York
World, Democrat.
While the senate is divided in opinion
on the question of irOncladS and mon
itors. there is apparently no difference
about maintaining all ariStOcratic SyS-
tenn of oficialism, which discourages
American youth of spirit from enlisting
in the navy as Seamen. Under this syS-
TEN more than half the seamen in the
navy are aliens and strangers to the
American flag. Such navy is Amer
lean only in name.-Philadelp Times
Qnd.)
When in the fullness of time the
states of the Union and other states
which have adopted manhood suffrage
enact laws which deprive the non-voter
of civil and civic rights, representative
government will have fair show. In
every community good citizens are in
majority, and knaves and boOdlers in a
minority. All that is wanted to secure
the best men in Office is to compel all
citizens to take part in the business of
filling the offices.-San Francisco Call
Rep.)
The appeal to the country will be
occasioned by just such rank Offenses as
the one denounced by Lord Randolph.
His retirement from the Salisbury cab
met was the result of charges made
against the administration of the de-
partmentS of the army and navy, which
charges have since been generally adj
mitted. His loss of influence as leader
was made more conspicuous by the pro-
mitigation of a series of domestic re-
forms almost radical enough to land
him in the Liberal ranks had not the
home rule issue held him in his place as
a government supporter. If that ''lin-
gering invalid, his political reputation"
depended upon the admiration of Tory
officeholders, it would soon expire; but
there is not man in the government
ranks to-day who can face the electors
with so admirable record as Lord Ran
dolph Churchill.-Springfield Republic
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-25
A CASE APPEALED.

The Rockford ChriSt-as the head of
the dispensation that has its 'heaven"
in Illinois. in community always nota-
BILE for conceits and isms of all kinds, is
termed-is attracting special attention
of late. Churches have been organized
in a number of localities. two of them in
this state, and the high lights of each of
them have been called to Rockford to
receive instruction and inspiration, IN
imitation of the apostolic gathering pre-
liminary to new onset upon the world.
He lives in royal luxury upon the ex-
actions from his dupes, and is likely to
have considerable following. His
death might end it, as he claims to
live forever. A st. Paul party says his
name will be before the Presbyterian
general assembly, to be held in May. on
an appeal from the lower bodies. A
lady who was member of Presby-
terrain church in Missouri became a
convert to SCHwEINFURTH, and in con-
sequence was expelled. She resisted
this as unwarranted by the church
creeds or discipline, and has gone
from presbytery to synod, aud will ap-
pear before the highest council of the
church. The Rockford fellow might
test his supernatural potency in her aid.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-25
AN OBJECT LESSON.

That protection protects the rich, yet
starves the poor, has an almost tragic
exemplification in the scene of destitu-
ton now to be witnessed in the neigh
borhood of Wilkesbarre, Pa. Those
who have been preaching the doctrine
that the protective system is the saliva
ton of American laborerS should visit
the mining towns of Pennsylvania just
at this time and gather object lessons
for their sermons. Pennsylvania is the
seat of the protection idea and yet there
Is nothing in Ireland, or in Poland, or
even in far-away Siberia more appalling
than the scenes of poverty, restitution
and suffering to be witnessed every
day in the Wilkesbarre collieries, where
the miners are compelled to subsiSt and
support their families on an average of
1211a cents day. The coal barons who
reside in the town are living in castles,
wealth can bestoW, and they are opposed
to any changes in the tariff law. They
pay their assessments to MATT QUAY
with liberal hand, and urge the Re-
publican majority in congress to stick
to their party platform and maintain
the high tariff schedule-advice that is
most likely to be followed. But
the coal barons have fattened,
are working for wages OH which
it is impossible to maintain life
and health in their families. In Or
der to force up the price Of coal, the
mine owners have cut down work in the
mines to four or five days in month.
Then Hungarians and Polanders have
been imported to compete with the
American laborers until the latter have
been driven to starvation. A special
correspondent, sent out by one of the
New York papers to investigate the con-
dition of the Wilkesbarre miners, found
that the reports of suffering that had
come up from that community were not
only verified, but that the half had not
been told. He recites a number of in
stances Of individual suffering to DEM
onstrate the truth of his assertions, and
he shows picture of horror that dis
counts the tales of woe in Ireland dur
ing tine famine period.
And what the protective system has
done for the Pennsylvania miners 1t is
doing for our Minnesota farmers more
slowly, perhaps, but none the less
surely. If the protective policy is con-
tinued, it is only question of time
when the farmers of the West will be
in as deplorable state as the miners of
the East are to-day. A system that
takes from the producer to enrich the
favored few must terminate in general
restitution for the masses. Therefore
the Wilkesbarre scene of poverty be-
comes most useful object lesson for
the study of our Minnesota farmers.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-25
REASONS FOR DELAY.

The Sioux City Journal has the candor
TO look at the question of the admission
of the new applicants for statehood in
non-partisan way. Its conclusion is that
Wyoming is pretty fairly qualified for
admission, but Arizona, Idaho and New
MeXica should remain indefinitely as
territories. 1t understands that all of
them except New Mexico will be likely
to vote with the Republicans, but their
population is too small and their future
too uncertain for statehood. As far as
population is concerned, Wyoming is
the smallest of them all, except, per-
haps, Arizona. 1t is believed to ha We
considerably less than 100000, and prob
ably not more than half ratio for a
congressman after the next apportion-
ment. 1t is not growing with any great
rapidity, as mining and stock growing
are about the only opportunities
it affords, unless congress provides
for irrigation. If there is to be
any rule established as to the num-
berS that warrant statehood, it
should hardly be less than the ratio
for representative. This is matter
of less Importance in the house than in
the senate. The fading rotten borough
state of Nevada has as many senators
as Minnesota. New York, or any of the
firSt-class states. The Journal thinks
Idaho and Arizona resemble Nevada in
most respects; in physical aspects they
are practical duplication, and have no
more claims to statehood than Nevada
had when admitted. If there is a posi-
bility of repeating that blunder, even
the acquisition of votes for the Repub-
lican party would be doubtful COM
pensation for the hazard, at least until
some device is had for shaking loose
dead or deeaying states. New Mexico
has more than double the population
OF Wyoming. and is being occupied by
some of the best elements of the
country, and will rapidly develop
into a community that will COM
pare favorably with many other
states. 1t has the natural advantages
for permanent and reliable clyiliza-
ton. If it were not for its dubious pol
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-25
THE STORY OF A DAY.

South Carolina is swept by storm OF cy-
clonic proportions.
Freezing weather has prevented Dakota
farmers from seeding.
Hoosiers tamper with nitro glycerine and
one is blown to atoms.
The remains of the late Gen. George Crook
are inferred at Oakland
Russian students revolt. and make it warm
for government authorities.
President Harrison warns piratical sealers
to steer clear of Behring sea
The worlds fair bill viii come up in the
house to-day ana be voted upon.
saltwater Republicans nominate straight
out Democrat tor municipal judge.
Six coal boats strike a pier at Cinclnnat,
and go to the bottom of the Ohio river.
Emperor William scheme Tor sailing the
German ship of state is full steaml Aheadr'
Dr. j. A Reed of Davenport, To-, is ar
rested on the charge of procuring an abor-
ton.
The Ohio river is falling. and there is no
further apprehension of flood at Cincin-
natl.
John NJ. Ward will not be restrained from
playing with the New York brotherhood
team.
Republican citizens of Clear Lake, To-,
vote for postmaster, and kick at the result Of
the election.
Secretary Balfour presents to the English
House Of Commons his Compromised Irish
land purchase bill.
The Midway hotel at Kearney, Neb., and
The Headquarters hotel at Wahpeton, N. D.,
are destroyed by fire.
The Steele court martial at Chicago finishes
the taking of evidence, and is now deliber-
Rting upon verdict
Pat Farrell prisoner under sentence to
the Wisconsin state prison, attempts to es-
cape from q sheriff while being conveyed
there.
Representative Van Schaick reports st.
Paul's public building bill to the house, with
the appropriation cut from $500, 600 to
$S0000O.
The house committee on public la nds. fail
ing to agree upon bill, submits two to the
house, and shirks the responsibility of faith
ering either.
Manitoba's government offers to subsidize
the Winnipeg & Hudson's Bay railway to the
extent of $780, 200, which sum the company
will decline with thanks.
Paine and Searles, charged with robbing
the Northern Pacific Express company at
Bralnerd or 5,ooO, are en- route from Mis-
Eoula, Mont. 10 Minnesota.
Kilrain, supposed TO be serving a sentence
of two months in Marion county (Miss.) jail,
is drinking Pommery Sec with his friend,
Charlie Rich, the lessee Of county prisoners
at Richburg.
The majority OF the senate committee on
elections submit q report recommending that
Sanders and Power, Republicans, be seated
rbn ,;,,o, itx ,,o1-a -
the admission of Clarke and Maginnls
The supreme court Of the United States
reverses the decision of the supreme court of
Minnesota in the so-called granger cases,
holding that the action of the railroad and
warehouse commission in making rates was
unconstitutional, its effect being to deprive
the roads Of their property without lawful
compensation. justices Br adley Gray and
Lamar dissent and Justice Miller, while APP
proving of the conclusion reached, does not
approve of the opinion re ndered.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-25

of the poor. GEORGE E. MCNEIL, the
labor leader, is certain that poverty is
caused by the unchristian and unscien-
tific methods of the production and dis
tribution of wealth. HENRY CLEws
charges the whole thing up to whisky.
He says: 81 am never afraid of the
man who drinks as competitor; his
habit is weakness that disables him
in the battle of life. and when the crisis
comes he cannot hold his own for mo-
ment with the temperate man."
CHARLES PRATT takes about the same
view of it. DR.. MoGLYNN says poverty
is chiefly caused by injustice, and the
denial to man of his God-given BIRTH
right of access to the land and its natu-
raj opportunities. EDWARD ATKINSON
tersely puts it voluntary idleness;"
while JOHN D. RoeKEFELLERa as senten-
tiously replies: 'Intemperance. That
is all. That one word answers the Ques-
tiOns fully
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-25
NOTED WOMEN.

Lady Colin Campbell has written a
play in which she will take leading
part.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland finds
her Florida orange groves profitable
property.
Forty women were graduated as
doctors of medicine from the WOmen's
Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Aunt Matilda Ruby, of Ken lucky, has
just died at the age of 1876. She chewed
and smoked for century and quarter.
Mrs. Mackay, of bonanza fame, has
purchased the magnificent house Of
Charles Wilson, in GroSvenor square,
London.
Mrs. Cleveland, after a course Of vio-
already attained an enviable degree OF
proficiency on that instrument.
Theodore Moss, the father Of Mrs.
Maurice B. Flynn, asseverates with
considerable heat that there is not a
daughter is to marry Jay Gould.
Mrs. Long. the postmistress at Char
lottesville, Va, and wife of the blind
Confederate officer, Gen. A. l.. Long, is
likely to remain in ner present position
as long as she wants to.
The ex-Empress Augusta Of Germany
left Lady-in-W Waiting Fraulein Won Rein
dorf, who has been in her service nearly
fifty years. a legacy of S12,500. Another
lady-in- waiting received $500.
M. Rouvier. the French minister of
Finance, is about to contract a marriage
with his niece, Mile. CadiOt, of Dieppe.
nj. Rouvler lost his first wife about
year ago. She was well known in the
literary world as novelist under the
name Claude Vignon.
Nine. de Mendonca. wife of the Bra
lillian member of the Pan-American
delegation, talks politics, as we'll as
weather, in the best of English. She is
pronounced by strangers "a perfect
type of Spanish beauty" Both her
beauty and her English are indigenous.
however, as she was borne III Maine, Of
generations of Yankee ancestors.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-25
LEADING MEN.

Tamagno, the great tenor, was bag
gage porter before his remarkable pow
ers of voice we're revealed.
DR.. Joachim, the great viollnist, has
given an annual series of concerts in
London for the past thirty years.
The annual income Of John ID. Rookie
Teller, the founder and head of the
Standard Oil company, is said to be
about S6.000.000.
The car of Russia has promised to
listen at st. Petersburg to glee club
composed of Americans studying at
German universities.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, declares
that his political ambition is fully sat
isfed. and that he would On no account
accept denomination.
William Endicott, of Boston, has just
entered his ninety-SecOnd year. He is
the sole survivor of the seventh genera
ton of John Endicott's descendants.
Three secretaryships have been pro
vided tor and d fourth devised, to have
continued work that the Iron Chan
cellor has hitherto done Single-handed.
Although the king of the Belgians has
aged perceptibly during the past ten
years, he has never lost the equaanim-
Ity f temper which made him so popu-
lar in his youth.
The crown prince of Sweden and
Norway, during his recent stay at Me-
ran. adopted two little Tyrolese boys,
sons of poor carpenter, and they are
now members of his household at Stock
holm.
Baron de la Grange, a French noble
man, now in Baltimore, has ordered a
lot of American corncob pipes to be
sent as present to the Comte Jean de
Kergorlay. No. II Rue Matignon, Paris.
The new Duke of Aosta. who would
become heir to the Italian throne in the
event of the death of the weakly and
delicate crown prince, is tall. hand
some young man, with perfectly cut
features.
Having retired from the louisville
Ky.) pension office, Gen. Don Carlos
Buell. has gone with his stepdaughter,
who constitutes all of his family, to his
farm in Muhlenberg county, where he
will perhaps endeavor to open up his
coal mines again.
Capt. Frank Cunningham, collector of
taxes at Richmond, Va, intends to sing
at his own funeral. He has sung at 3S5
funerals during the last two years. He
intends to sing certain songs into a
monograph and let the instrument
officiate at the ceremonies preceding his
burial.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-25

ltics, 1t would be regarded as fair asso-
ciate for Wyoming in coming in. The
Sioux City paper is good Republican au-
thority for CHASING Idaho and Arizona
with Nevada. In Idaho the novel expert
ment is to be tried of DISTINGUISHING about
one-third of the men of voting age. 1t
is matter of much doubt how the
scheme will work. 1t would be wrong
to indefinitely keep out any territory
that has reasonable numbers and condi-
tions for statehood, but there is little Ie-
liable data as to the population and out
come of most of these territories. Only
the greed of partisanship is in the way
of first gathering the desirable informa-
tion from the census so soon to be taken.
If any of them are to be taken on trust,
all should have the same treatment.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-25
A GOOD LAW.

The Ohio legislature has enacted one
statute that has no suspicion of PARTISAN
ship, and that is in the direction of hui
mainly and the security of the travelling
public. 1t is a measure to limit the
hours of continuous labor by trainmen.
The men are to have extra pay when on
duty more than twelve hours, and no
road can allow them to be on more than
tweuty-four hours without at least
eight hours of rest. An official investi-
cation of railway disasters in that state
developed surprising facts in this mat
ter. The instances are numerous in the
record of disastrous railroad casualties
in Ohio and other states in which the
custodians of the train and of the safety
of the passengers had been On duty far
beyond the limitations of humanity,
and the overWorked men had been url-
able to give the needful constant watch
fulness. 1t is sort of legislation that
may be useful in any state, although no
prudent railroad management will give
occasion for its application.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-25
ALL SORTS.

"Whom do you love- Marie?" cried.
The maid was very proper,
She blushed deep red, and then replied,
New York Sun.
She-What makes you have such a
poor opinion of the medical fraternity?
Hell am doctor myself Epoc
'sDo you believe, Mrs. Lockwood. that
the Office should seek the MANI? 81
most certainly do" replied Belva, "but
-er-it's different with wome NJ
Life.
He (cautiously)-What would you say,
darling, if l should ask you plumply to
be my wife, Darling (even more eau
tiously)-Ask me and find out.-Wash-
ington Star.
Not Well Informed-"Papa." said the
little one, twill there be newspapers in
heaven?" perhaps. my child, but
there will be a new set of editors and
reporters. "-Dixon Qll.) Telegraph.
Quite Unknown : What piece are
they going to sing next, sir?" asked
ROllo at the church. you mean," re-
piled Mr.. Holiday, "what selection.
Peace, Kollo, is something quite I'M
known among church choirS. "-B0Ston
Transcript.
Jarrett - Pearson is absolutely the
In6d06SG Hldn 0VoT til0U. Oo you KNOW
what that fellow did when he was mar
ried2 Garrett-What? Declined to fee
the minister. Jarrett-Fee the minis
ter! Why. sir. the ushers took up a
collection at the wedding Life.
She Was Deserving.-MisSM Minnie
MI. Figg, you really must buy ticket
for our ball. 1t is for the benefit of a
poor, starving dressmaker. FIgg-But
is she really deserving, do you think?
Miss Minnie-I know she is. She has
done lots of work for the girls of our
set. and always lets us set our own
price.-Terre Haute Express.
No Mystery.-She-I have always
supposed the fashionables endeavore d
to keep their numbers down as low as
possible. but now see the ''400' have
been increased to 1900. He-The Wall
street man made 'em. AS soon as they
get control they proceeded to run So
ciety according to business principles,
and, of course, the first move was TO
water the stock. Life.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-25
NATIONAL POLITICS.
States for Party Purposes Only

States for Party Purposes Only.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Four states have been admitted to the
union lately, and before they haye been
in it long enough to see their stars
formally added to the federal flag they
have bred bankruptcy. starvation and
scandals of monstrous proportions. But
they have given the Republicans in
creased strength in congress. and that
is the sole care of the Republican party,
which is about to convert into states
two more territories, either one of which
is more than twice as large as Ohio,
while both together never cast as many
votes as the city of Cleveland alone.
The Republican party has only one con-
Germ in carrying on the government,
and that is to advance the interests of
the Republican party, which holds the
public in the same regard as the late
MIR. Vanderbilt.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-25

home article. AS most of those who
fear the rivalry are alien-born, they
perhaps did not bring all the best music
with them. If there is anything better,
this country wants it. fit is no better,
the local production will not suffer from
it. 1t is surprising to see the interpret
ers of the heavenly art classed with the
pigtails and human machines hired to
do cheap work in mines.